Parental Alienation 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 a child may prefer spending time with …
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 to another country, another city or even another …
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 of the Hague Convention is to help …
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 children. During the relationship, both people might come to …
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 of the country with the children, one of …
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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 say that navigating new territory is easy. Devising custody …
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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 2017. The orders permitted the mother to change their …
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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 living with their mother. Court records note that …
Family Court Decision – One Mother’s Severe Lesson In Co-Parenting Read More »
Separated parents may have disagreements when it comes to vaccinating their children. Figuring out how to co-parent with your previous partner can sometimes feel like hitting a nail in with a glass hammer. It’s a full-time job, even when both parents generally agree. If there is a disagreement of some sort, your job becomes exponentially …
What If Your Ex Doesn’t Want Your Children Vaccinated? Read More »
NSW has the highest rate of child removals in Australia. It also has the highest number of children in foster care. In 2017, 22,400 children are forecasted to be removed from homes in NSW and placed into foster care. What happens to these children? Are they really better off away from their families? The Australian …
