Parental Responsibility
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…
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…
A FRUSTRATED magistrate has declared the hatred of two parents engaged in a war over the schooling of their daughter so “insidious” it would constitute a “weapon of mass destruction” if bottled…
A JUDGE has likened parties in a custody feud between a millionaire businessman and the former flame whom he helped to conceive a child through IVF to warring Shakespearean families…
A widow has been allowed to extract her dead husband’s sperm a day after he took his own life, following an urgent West Australian court hearing…
THE Family Court has formally recognised the decision of a Torres Strait Islander couple to give their newborn baby away to an infertile couple in accordance with a traditional child rearing practice…
A NSW father has been ordered by the Family Court not to ask his daughter about her school reports or force her to eat meals…
A COURT has ordered that an Australian mother enrol her children in Spanish classes to learn the culture and customs of their father’s homeland…
Three reports evaluating aspects of Australia’s family law system have been released by the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland. ..