Family Court of Australia Full Court
Gong & Wei [2017] FamCAFC 55 (4 April 2017)
Interim parenting orders – where the mother appeals against interim parenting orders which provide for equal shared parental responsibility, remove the previously ordered supervision of the children’s time with the father and increase that time – where the primary judge did…
Family Court of Australia Full Court
Vale & Vale (No 8) [2016] FamCA 992 (15 November 2016)
Practice and procedure – where the child seeks to intervene in the proceedings and to appoint her own legal representative – where the child seeks that the current Independent Children’s Lawyer is discharged – application dismissed.
Hickson & Green…
Family Court of Australia Full Court
Kopel & Ferro [2016] FamCAFC 202 (14 October 2016)
Parenting – relocation – where the appellant appeals against final parenting orders
dismissing an application to relocate overseas with the child – whether the primary judge
erred in his assessment of the parties’ competing proposals – where the primary judge
failed to evaluate…
Family Court of Australia Full Court
Saska & Radavich [2016] FamCAFC 179 (1 September 2016)
Parenting – parenting orders – proper interpretation of definition of family violence in s4AB(1) of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) (“the Act”) – whether mother a member of the family of the father within the meaning of s4AB(1) –…
Family Court of Australia- Full Court
Clarence & Crisp [2016] FamCAFC 157 (18 August 2016)
De facto relationship – parentage – the appellant is the birth mother of the child, but the child was conceived using the respondent’s egg – appeal against a finding that the parties were in a de facto relationship at the…
Family Court of Australia
Sealy & Sealy [2016] FamCA 523 (30 June 2016)
Parenting – whether two of the children have been sexually abused by the father – where there is no suggestion the parties’ male child has been sexually abused by the father – whether the children are at an unacceptable risk of harm if…
Family Court of Australia Full Court
O'Connor & Healy [2016] FamCAFC 111 (28 June 2016)
Practice and procedure– where the trial judge delivered oral reasons for judgment – where
the trial judge subsequently amended the reasons pursuant to the slip rule prior to
publication – where the trial judge substantially altered the substance of the judgment in
doing so…
Padley & Padley [2016] FamCAFC 82 (23 May 2016)
Parenting – where the father appeals against interim parenting orders suspending his time with the
child – where the mother and Independent Children’s Lawyer conceded that the appeal should be
allowed – where the primary judge erred in finding that there was a risk of harm to…
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