As a divorced parent enrolling a child at school, there are several things to be aware of that you would not have had to think about while married or in a relationship. When parents separate or divorce, their child’s education can be affected as schools rely on the cooperation of parents to provide children with …
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In parenting matters in family law, the court will often appoint an independent children’s lawyer to represent the best interests of the children. Each parent knows what they want and what they believe to be the best thing for their children and themselves. They each participate in the court case and have a lawyer representing …
Many court cases feature a family report. This is a document written by a professional for the purposes of helping the judge determine the best outcome of the family dispute and the best interests of the children involved. Who Writes The Family Report Family reports are written by family consultants. A family consultant is …
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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