Child Custody

31: Dementia patient’s marriage voided by mental incapacity | March 24, 2014

It was an autumn wedding. He was 78, about to move into a nursing home and suffering from dementia. She was his 49-year-old former cleaner.
Weeks earlier, she had accompanied her fiance to his solicitor to change his will to leave her everything. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and the groom’s family challenged the marriage in the Family Court.
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32: Same-sex parents ‘more caring’, research shows | January 23, 2014

CHILDREN in same-sex families experience higher quality parenting and do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as those from heterosexual couple families, research shows…

33: Gay man fights to be recognised as father of child to lesbian couple | January 8, 2014

A MELBOURNE sperm donor dad has been granted access to his daughter despite the objections of her lesbian parents to his youthful partying ways. The man had been seeking shared custody of his two-year-old biological daughter that would have seen her living with him five nights a fortnight…

34: Family Court stalwart who was dedicated to children’s welfare | November 20, 2013

John Francis Fogarty, who was an outstanding Family Court judge and a significant figure in child protection, has died aged 80. ..

35: Family law fact sheet – parenting orders and shared parental responsibility | November 15, 2013

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…

36: 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…

37: 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…

38: Relocating children after divorce: when is it ok? | July 28, 2013

As more families become “international” many are faced with the dilemma that on divorce (or separation) one partner wants to go back home with the children and the other wants them to stay here. This article outlines what to consider if you’re thinking about leaving Australia…

39: Triangle tangle in lesbian feud | July 20, 2013

A LESBIAN couple and their sperm donor are fighting over the custody of their two children in a case that has become the new reality for family court proceedings…