LLB243 Family Law
Unit synopsis
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 |
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Summer 2, 2018 (Block) | 8 January 2018 - 16 February 2018 |
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Summer 2, 2018 | 8 January 2018 - 16 February 2018 |
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Semester 2, 2018 | 23 July 2018 - 16 November 2018 |
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Summer 2, 2019 (Block) | 7 January 2019 - 22 February 2019 |
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Summer 2, 2019 | 7 January 2019 - 22 February 2019 |
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Semester 2, 2019 | 22 July 2019 - 15 November 2019 |
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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
Previous study requirements
- Prerequisites
- LLB105 or LWB146. LLB105 can be studied in the same teaching period as LLB243
- Anti-requisites
- LWB302
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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