Shared Parenting

1: Shared Parenting Laws Mis-Represented by ex-Judge Richard Chisholm | October 23, 2014

Retired Family Court judge Richard Chisholm has written a blueprint for overhauling Australia’s Family Law Act recommending the removal of Shared Parenting as a potential outcome in Family Law Court proceedings…

2: Parenting plans or Family Court Orders? – your choice | April 27, 2014

If you separate from your husband, wife or de facto partner and you have children together, you both have a continuing responsibility for the care of your children. So what are the options when it comes to figuring out the care arrangements for the children?..

3: Shared care and Family Tax Benefit | April 24, 2014

This factsheet explains how Family Tax Benefit (FTB) works when the care of children is shared, most frequently in the event of divorce or separation. It also explains how to deal with problems that can arise, particularly when two carers do not agree on the “percentage of care” that should apply…

4: Family law reform outcome not as expected | September 17, 2013

Separated families in Australia are living with less parental conflict, an outcome likely to have been brought about by increased relationship services, not parenting time arrangements…

5: New school terms could impact child custody plans | December 5, 2012

The Christmas holidays are here, but for Tasmanian parents with shared child custody, the new year’s school holidays could raise some legal issues…

6: High Court rejects shared parenting plan | March 3, 2010

A court order requiring a Sydney mother and Mount Isa father to share parenting of their seven-year-old might have been in the child’s best interests, but it just wasn’t feasible, the High Court has ruled. ..

7: Law system reports are all in the family | January 29, 2010

Three reports evaluating aspects of Australia’s family law system have been released by the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland. ..

8: Australia Releases Family Law Reforms Evaluation | January 28, 2010

The most comprehensive evaluation of Australia’s family law system – drawing on the experience of 28,000 Australians – has found that overall the recent reforms are working well for the majority of children and their parents. ..

9: Father’s battle for 50-50 custody long and expensive | July 25, 2009

Mr B said he was accused in court of being “a bad husband, a bad father” and he believes that were it not for the Howard government’s shared parenting laws, which require the Family Court to presume that a child’s best interests are served by having a “meaningful” relationship with both parents after separation, he would not have been given any responsibility for his son, let alone equal time…