equal shared parental responsibility

1: Equal parental responsibility is failing children, inquiry hears | December 29, 2019

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…

2: Surrogate Birth Mother banned from child’s life for Blackmailing Biological Parents | October 19, 2017

A surrogate mother has been stripped of her parental rights after the baby boy’s biological parents won a court battle to erase her from the child’s life…

3: 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…

4: Landmark federal ruling in custody battle involving IVF mum and her ex | June 18, 2013

A Family Court judge has awarded a man equal shared parental responsibility of a two-year-old boy he fathered as a sperm donor, in a landmark ruling. The decision was handed down despite despite Victorian law stating that sperm donors are not to be considered the father, because the father and child had already formed a bond with the approval of the mother…

5: 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. ..