Belinda Fehlberg is a professor of law in the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, specialising in family law. Her empirical and doctrinal research over the past 20 years has covered a wide range of family law issues, including spousal guarantees, pre-nuptial agreements, overlapping powers of the state children’s courts and family law courts, children's contact services, and links between post-separation shared parenting and financial arrangements. She is the lead author of Australian Family Law: The Contemporary Context (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 2015).