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COVID-19 Fact sheet: Good Practice Guide for Lawyers- meeting with children via technology

Dear ICL, Even when you can't meet a child in person you can and should communicate with them. Please see a Good Practice Guide developed to assist ICLs nationally to communicate with children via technology. It is a comprehensive guide which contains valuable information you need to consider when meeting with a child via technology.…

Significant cases published July 2021

Family Court of Australia - Full Court Langley & Tarelli (No. 4) [2021] FamCAFC 107 (5 July 2021) APPEAL – PARENTING – Appeal against final parenting orders which provided for the first respondent mother to have sole parental responsibility for the child and for the appellant father to spend limited supervised time with the child –…

Significant cases published June 2021

Family Court of Australia - Full Court Panneton & Delauder [2021] FamCAFC 102 (25 June 2021) FAMILY LAW – APPEAL – INTERNATIONAL RELOCATION – Appeal from final parenting orders permitting the mother to relocate with the child to the United States of America – Inadequacy of reasons – Where the primary judge made premature determinations before an…

Australia’s only behavioural change e-program essential for any parent in high conflict separation. FREE & FULL ACCESS FOR ALL AUSTRALIAN PARENTS EXTENDED until midnight on 31 July 2021

www.relationspaceonline.com.au RelationSpace Online is specifically designed to help parents in high-conflict separation manage intense emotions, develop more flexible thinking and reduce conflict with the other parent. More than ever parents who have high-conflict interactions with their ex-partners need relevant, accurate help. Children who are moving between 2 homes need every bit of support we…

Significant cases published May 2021

Family Court of Australia - Full Court Oberlin & Infeld [2021] FamCAFC 66 (7 May 2021) FAMILY LAW – APPEAL – Parenting – Where the mother appeals final parenting orders – Where the orders conditioned the circumstances under which the children could spend time with the mother, required her to seek therapeutic treatment and imposed conditions which…

Significant cases published April 2021

Family Court of Australia - Full Court Covington & Covington [2021] FamCAFC 52 (16 April 2021) FAMILY LAW – APPLICATION IN AN APPEAL – Stay – Application to stay an appeal pending determination by the High Court of Australia of an application to remove the appeal to that court pursuant to s 40 of the Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth)…

Significant cases published March 2021

Family Court of Australia Paintal & Paintal (No. 2) [2021] FamCA 124 (15 March 2021) FAMILY LAW – PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – refusal of the father to answer questions of the Independent Children’s Lawyer in Final Defended Hearing – contempt – whether the affidavit material of the father affirmed by him will be taken as…

Cases published October 2020

Family Court of Australia - Full Court Nakul & Sabharwal [2020] FamCAFC 262 (29 October 2020) Parenting – where the father contends that the primary judge erred in making an order providing the mother with sole parental responsibility with respect to the child’s school – where this ground fails as no such order was made,…

Cases published September 2020

Family Court of Australia Re: Imogen (No. 6) [2020] FamCA 761 (10 September 2020) Parenting – medical procedures – Gender Dysphoria – where Imogen has been diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria, currently takes puberty suppression medication and wishes to move to stage 2 gender affirming hormone treatment – where the father supports Imogen’s wish – where…