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1: Court rules on parents’ dispute about sending their children to private schools | September 28, 2017

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…




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2: Mother Loses Custody After Preventing Father Seeing Child | December 1, 2014

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…




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3: Parents’ war over daughter’s schooling ‘insidious’, claims Magistrate | March 11, 2013

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…




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4: Father banned from asking daughter about school | December 26, 2011

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…




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5: Judge orders Spanish lessons for children | April 22, 2010

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…