Sole Custody

1: Family Court Should Be Last Resort: Attorney-General | September 12, 2017

Federal Attorney-General George Brandis called on judges and magistrates yesterday to start ruling on custody and property disputes to take pressure off the overloaded family and federal circuit courts…

2: Single Dads with Custody – Research into their psychological wellbeing | August 8, 2016

This study will explore variables that might affect the psychological well-being of primary custodial fathers, including traditional masculinity beliefs, skills and self-efficacy, and social support…

3: Mother Loses Custody After Preventing Father From From Seeing Child | December 1, 2014

A judge recently took the “drastic step” of ordering that a girl, eight, who had lived with her mother since her parents separated when she was 13 months, instead live with her father…

4: 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…

5: Father wins custody of his abducted son | April 25, 2014

A child who was abducted by his mother and taken to Europe will live with his father full time in Australia — and spend no time with his mother…

6: Inability to Control One’s Impulses a Ground for Loss of Visitation Rights | October 7, 2013

In this case, the Family Court gave sole parental responsibility to the mother and prohibited the father from seeing or communicating with his two children because of his temper…