Remarriage and parenting orders need to be considered together once you have tied the knot a second time. Many couples remarry after divorce, often starting another family with stepparents, step-siblings and half-siblings.After a divorce, many parents have parenting orders made either after a court...
Seven people have so far been charged for their involvement in a parental child abduction ring.Earlier this week, three women from Taree, Newcastle and Townsville were charged with conspiring to defeat justice.Two men from Grafton, one from Townsville and a woman from Perth were charged...
Parental alienation is the term used to describe when one parent deliberately damages the relationship between the other parent and their child.High-conflict situations can be hard on the children involved, and although some maintain a strong connection with both of their parents, in other cases...
What Is International Relocation? Many people move to different countries at different stages of their lives, so it is no surprise that after the breakdown of a relationship a parent may want to live overseas with their children. This is called international relocation.Moving away – whether...
What Is The Hague Convention? The Hague Convention creates an agreement between multiple countries to provide a process that parents can use to seek the return of their children to their home country.Australia is one of the many countries in which it is in force.The purpose...
Who Decides A Child's Religion? Australia is an incredibly multicultural society made up of people from all over the globe and in such a diverse country it is highly likely that two people from different religious backgrounds will meet, fall in love, get married and have...
A father has lost an appeal to the family court that will now limit his contact with his children to writing to them twice a year.He was successful in appealing decisions in relation to the property settlement and spousal maintenance.In mid-2013, a father flew out...
Life moves differently from the way it did even one decade ago. Australian couples marry later, have fewer children, are more likely to separate or divorce, remarry or start a second family.Domestic life does not follow any one standard script, but this is not to...
A father has lost his appeal to stop his child from moving outside of a 40-minute driving radius of his own home.Groth v Banks [2017] FamCAFC 206 concerned an appeal made by the father against final parenting orders made by Thornton J on 13 January...
Mr and Mrs Ralton (Court-ordained pseudonyms) were in a relatively short relationship from 2005 to 2009.During the relationship, the couple had two children- a son and a daughter.The son and daughter were aged three and one respectively when their parents separated, and the children remained...