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LAWS13011 - Family Law

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Family Law is an elective delivered via intensive mode. This unit will equip you with the knowledge and skills to practice family law by providing you with an understanding of the legislation and case law relating to the dissolution of the marriage relationship and defacto relationship, planning for future financial arrangements including the division of property, spousal maintenance and child support, the role of dispute resolution in family law and planning for child focused arrangements pertaining to children.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-Requisite: 48 credit points of law 


Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 40%
2. Written Assessment 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student feedback, staff reflection
Feedback
Review the intensive delivery of the unit
Recommendation
Review whether the unit should be delivered over 12 weeks.
Action Taken
UUP approved for delivery over 12 weeks.
Source: Staff reflection
Feedback
Extend practical scenarios to include practitioners providing a guest lecture
Recommendation
Given the practical nature of this unit, the unit coordinator should consider whether guest lectures from practitioners would further reinforce students' learning.
Action Taken
There is a huge amount of content in this unit, but with a 12-week format guest lectures could be incorporated.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
This subject was huge to complete in just 6 weeks. Whilst the concepts are straight forward, the unit itself felt crowded and would benefit from being a 10 week or 12 week course. Especially if students are taking this with other subjects.
Recommendation
Unit has been restructured as a 12-week unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Granted I had no idea it was an intensive subject until I enrolled, it seemed strange that it was intensive at all to begin with. Family Law is so complex!
Recommendation
As above.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
AJ did a fabulous job at keeping up with the changes and connecting with students. Comms were clear and Questions responded to very quickly. Amazing 6 weeks! Well done AJ and thanks for so many learnings to take forward in my degree.
Recommendation
Teams to be retained for communications.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Research and analyse the approach taken by the courts in resolving family law issues and applying the Family Law legislation, Family Law rules, Federal Circuit Court rules and case law.
  2. Critically evaluate family law disputes, identifying relevant issues and options to resolve family law disputes including property, children and international jurisdictional issues involving the removal of children from Australia.

Not applicable.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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