Family law outcomes are heavily influenced by interim decisions. Once a parent is excluded from the home, restricted in contact, or publicly framed as a risk, the final outcome is often shaped long before trial.

At the same time, Australia now directs billions of dollars toward responding to what is framed as a national crisis of family and gender-based violence.

While protection is essential, funding models built on volume rather than verification risk creating perverse incentives — including the normalisation of untested allegations and the erosion of procedural fairness.

When systems cannot reliably distinguish genuine risk from strategic misuse, both justice and protection suffer.

What we do

Family Law Integrity collects confidential, de-identified accounts to document:

• how often state processes are triggered in private disputes

• which mechanisms are most commonly used

• the gap between allegations and findings

• the financial, psychological, and systemic cost of these practices

• how funding, policy, and data narratives interact

Our aim is to expose patterns, not to adjudicate individual cases.

What we are not

We are not anti-victim.
We are not anti-protection.

We do not deny the reality of family violence.

We believe that genuine victims are harmed when systems are overwhelmed by low-threshold, tactical, or untested claims — and when public confidence in justice erodes as a result.

Why integrity matters

A justice system that tolerates procedural misuse:

• incentivises escalation over resolution

• rewards allegations over evidence

• harms children by turning precaution into permanence

• diverts resources from high-risk cases

• undermines trust in courts and public institutions

Reform does not require new laws.


It requires accountability and enforcement of existing ones.