N OVEMBER 2025
Thank you Family Court Accountability Network /FCAN for your work. Family Court Accountability Today is Economic Abuse Awareness Day.
What we are seeing in the Family Court is state sanctioned and enabled Economic Abuse. Every week across Australia, women are being pushed into homelessness, poverty, and total financial collapse because of the Family Court. The government refuses to act to end Family Court Abuse Economic and financial abuse is not a misunderstanding. This is not a complex dispute. This is a deliberate pattern of control that continues long after separation. What does economic abuse look like in real life? It looks like perpetrators who: • manufacture ATO debts after separation
• inflate business loans and push them into the asset pool • manipulate accounts to strip equity from the family home • refuse to pay child support while demanding more time • delay property settlements to financially break the mother • hide income and assets to reduce their obligations • force the sale of the family home under value
• pressure mothers to refinance with banks that will not help • drain savings, super and credit while the system looks away • walk away with property they did not build and money they did not earn
It also looks like a system that allows financially crippling, uncapped, unnecessary legal fees that decimate women before they ever reach trial. Mothers who cannot pay mortgages because every dollar is extracted into legal processes that go nowhere. Financial institutions o ff ering only lip service under the banner of hardship or vulnerability assistance, while foreclosing on homes anyway and pushing women into homelessness. And mothers forced to pay for long term supervised contact, while fathers are given short-term supervision or none at all. These are all forms of economic control. These are all forms of economic abuse. This is not a financial disagreement. This is punishment. This is coercive control carried out through accountants, lawyers, banks, and a court system that refuses to intervene. Australia has created a system where an abuser can: • create debt out of spite • force the sale of the family home • leave the mother penniless and then step out of his children’s lives completely While she is left to rebuild alone, with nothing, blamed for everything. This is the economic abuse pipeline the Family Court refuses to acknowledge and the ATO, banks, financial institutions, and child support quietly enable.
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Maggie Marriott
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