Children
A MOTHER who sparked an international search after she absconded with her son to Europe has been found guilty of taking the child out of the country without permission…
For the past six years, an unassuming home in a quiet pocket of Sunshine Coast suburbia has housed the answer to a two-decade mystery…
John Francis Fogarty, who was an outstanding Family Court judge and a significant figure in child protection, has died aged 80. ..
A Parenting Order specifies where a child is to live, the time they are to spend with each parent and how they can communicate with their parents…
A binding child support agreement can be set aside based on exceptional circumstances. An exceptional circumstance is when the agreement will cause hardship of a serious nature and inequity to the applicant. The father failed to prove the exceptional circumstance in his case…
It is the dark side of international adopting – “re-homing,” when unprepared, sometimes naive parents realise that they are unable to handle the child they brought into their home for a better life…
A mother who secretly took her son to live overseas in the middle of a custody dispute says she did so to stop the boy’s father abusing him, asking a jury “what would you risk if you thought your little boy was in danger?”..
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…
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…
The New South Wales Health Minister and Attorney-General have taken opposing sides over proposed legislation to change the legal definition of an unborn child. MPs will be allowed a conscience vote on the private member’s bill, which is designed to allow criminal liability for the death of a foetus that is at least 20 weeks old. Currently, charges can only be laid over the injury or death of the mother…