LLB243 Family Law

Legal professionals assisting clients who are entering into relationships or experiencing relationship breakdown are involved in helping them plan their future financial and parenting arrangements. Their role, when assisting clients after separation, is to help their clients find the most appropriate forms of dispute resolution and to minimise conflict experienced by family members, particularly where there are children. Family lawyers are most often engaged in matters involving future arrangements for children and financial issues, such as property settlement, spousal maintenance and child support. They also assist clients in applications to seek protection for family violence. This unit aims to provide you, as a potential family law professional, with an understanding of the family law system, the various options for resolution of disputes, and the relevant legislation and case law and how it is applied in practice.

Faculty: Faculty of Law
School/Discipline: Law School
Study area: Law and justice
Credit points: 12

Dates and locations

Teaching period	Dates	Locations
Summer 2, 2018 (Block)	8 January 2018 - 16 February 2018	Gardens Point
Summer 2, 2018	8 January 2018 - 16 February 2018	Gardens Point (External)
Semester 2, 2018	23 July 2018 - 16 November 2018	Gardens Point Gardens Point (External)
Summer 2, 2019 (Block)	7 January 2019 - 22 February 2019	Gardens Point
Summer 2, 2019	7 January 2019 - 22 February 2019	Gardens Point (External)
Semester 2, 2019	22 July 2019 - 15 November 2019	Gardens Point Gardens Point (External)

Fees

Commonwealth supported place (CSP) student contribution amount: 2018: $1,344; 2019: $1,369
Domestic fee-paying student fee: 2018: $2,532; 2019: $2,640
International student fee (excluding study abroad students): 2018: $3,480; 2019: $3,624

Guide to fees

Commonwealth supported place (CSP) student contribution amount

For Australian citizens, permanent visa holders and permanent humanitarian visa holders, and New Zealand citizens who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course and are eligible for a Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
as a cross-institutional student who has a Commonwealth supported place at their home university.

Domestic fee-paying student fee

For Australian citizens, permanent visa holders and permanent humanitarian visa holders, and New Zealand citizens, who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course and are not eligible for a Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
as part of a QUT course during Summer Semester
as a cross-institutional student who does not have a Commonwealth supported place at their home university
as a single-unit study student.

International student fee

For international students who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course
as a cross-institutional student.

Previous study requirements

Prerequisites: LLB105 or LWB146. LLB105 can be studied in the same teaching period as LLB243
Anti-requisites: LWB302

Guide to previous study requirements

Prerequisites: To enrol in this unit, you must have completed these prerequisite units (or have credit, advanced standing or exemption for them), or be able to demonstrate that you have equivalent background knowledge.
Anti-requisites: You can’t enrol in this unit if you have completed any of these anti-requisite units.
Co-requisites: To enrol in this unit, you must have already completed these co-requisite units, or you must enrol in them at the same time.
Equivalents: You can’t enrol in this unit if you have completed any of these equivalent units.
Assumed knowledge: We assume that you have a minimum level of knowledge in certain areas before you start this unit.

Summer Semester details

Dates: 8 January 2018 - 16 February 2018
Class days: This unit will be taught in intensive/block mode. Timetable information will be available in HiQ by October.
Class times: 9am to 5pm
Fee type: Tuition Fee
Restrictions: The unit is available to QUT, visiting and cross institutional students.
Notes: This is a summer tuition fee unit at the undergraduate level. Standard tuition fees apply. Eligible students may apply for FEE-HELP in eStudent via QUT Virtual including Cross Institutional and QUT students in a Commonwealth supported place who are required to pay tuition fees.

Dates: 7 January 2019 - 22 February 2019
Class days: This unit will be taught in intensive/block mode. Timetable information will be available in HiQ by September.
Fee type: Tuition Fee
Restrictions: No restrictions: this unit is available to all QUT students and single-unit study and cross institutional students.
Notes: This is a summer tuition fee unit at the undergraduate level. Standard tuition fees apply. Eligible students may apply for FEE-HELP in eStudent including Cross Institutional and QUT students in a Commonwealth supported place who are required to pay tuition fees. Fee costs will be available in October.

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