Australia’s family law system is failing to protect children by misleading separated parents into believing their children have to spend time with their ex-partner, even if they are dangerous, one of the nation’s largest children’s charities has warned…

The High Court has found a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend to have a child is the father, due to his involvement in the child’s life…

A woman has asked the Family Court to order the destruction of 12 embryos — even though she has no genetic link to them…

Identical twin brothers liked impersonating each other to sleep with lots of women. Now, both of their names will go on one baby’s birth certificate…

A court has said yes today to a Brisbane woman who has been fighting for the right to have a child using her dead boyfriend’s sperm. It’s a vexed issue for some and this ruling is being described as landmark…

A divorced mother, known by her court appointed pseudonym as Ms Stewart, has sought an Order from the Court that her two children, one boy and one girl, upon reaching high school age, should be enrolled in two prestigious same-sex private schools, the son of which to follow in the father’s family tradition, she claimed, and attend the father’s and grandfather’s alma mater…

A British court has found that a mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy was not a criminal offence, and so has denied a damages claim made on behalf of her disabled daughter. However, this poses obvious ethical dilemmas, particularly appertaining to the effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy on the child…

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…

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…

A Sydney father has won the right to vaccinate his children after a drawn-out legal battle with their mother, who is strongly opposed to immunisation…