Interim spousal maintenance – Applicant wife working part-time and caring for two children – Respondent had capacity to pay, where he had redrawn loan facility and controlled a trust –…
Children – Court not satisfied that sexual abuse occurred but where mother’s belief of risk was reasonably held – No time to the father – Anxiety of the mother considered…
Children – Father’s self-harming de facto partner restrained from being present during children’s time with father – Restraint granted despite evidence of psychiatrist and family report writer that de facto…
Property Law Dispute Full Court upholds appeal as to assessment of post-separation contributions where parties had been separated for 10 years – Disparity between wife’s Newstart allowance (and child’s board)…
Children – Full Court considers whether an order made at an interim hearing for the enrolment of a child in a school was interim or final – Procedural fairness. Parents…
Communication is the key factor in ensuring the workability of parenting orders especially in regards to sharing parental responsibility. Most parents consider that when making long terms decisions about children…
Many matters that come before the court and practitioners in general contain unsubstantiated allegations of one thing or another. It is important for parents to put aside differences and consider…
Wifes distribution from family trust to pay school fees not added back. Her payment of school fees in advance treated as a contribution under Section 79 (4) In Alexiou [2012]…
In Hardwick [2013] FCWA 57 (20 May 2013) the parties disagreed over the appointment of a single expert witness to provide a report in a parenting case and the terms…
In Richards & Parsons [2013] FamCAFC 74 (7 May 2013) the mother was twice assaulted by the father during a seven month cohabitation in Canberra. The father was in both…
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