Please visit the following link to a flyer about the 2019 Child Inclusive Practice Forum.
Launch of the new national website about domestic and family violence, the law and where to get help
Please visit the following link to a flyer about the new national Family Violence Law Help website developed by National Legal Aid for the public.
Family Court of Australia
Zaro & Zan [2019] FamCA 4 (11 January 2019)
FAMILY LAW – JURISDICTION – STAY APPLICATION – proceedings commenced by wife in Australia for parenting and property orders – proceedings commenced by husband for divorce, child support, parenting and property proceedings in People’s Republic of China – husband sought stay…
Family Court of Australia
Macey & Liddell and Anor [2018] FamCA 1027 (7 December 2018)
FAMILY LAW – CHILDREN – Interim – With whom a child spends time – Where the mother opposes the child spending any time with the father – Where the father seeks to spend time with the child under professional observation…
National Legal Aid was funded in 2017-18 by the Commonwealth Attorney Generals Department to develop a new national ICL training program to train legal practitioners as Independent Children’s Lawyers (ICLs). Previously the training was run by the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia in collaboration with Legal Aid Commissions.
The new program comprises…
Family Court of Australia- FULL COURT
Kerson & Blake [2018] FamCAFC 215 (12 November 2018)
FAMILY LAW – APPEAL – PARENTING – INTERNATIONAL RELOCATION – Where the mother sought to return to the United States of America with the children – Application for relocation opposed by the father – Where the primary judge gave determinative…
Family Court of Australia
Adel & Banes [2018] FamCA 821 (10 October 2018)
FAMILY LAW – CHILDREN – Parenting – where mother seeks parenting orders under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) that she have sole parental responsibility and the child live with her and the father spend time with the child – where…
Family Court of Australia
Sahrawi & Hadrami [2018] FamCAFC 170 (4 September 2018)
FAMILY LAW – APPEAL – PARENTING – Where the primary judge found that the father behaved in a psychologically coercive manner to secure sex from the mother based upon words said in a recorded telephone conversation between the mother and the father…
Family Court of Australia
Jillet & Murdoch (No. 2) [2018] FamCA 604 (10 August 2018)
FAMILY LAW – COSTS – Where the Independent Children’s Lawyer seeks that the parties pay the ICL’s costs of the proceedings – Where the mother and father oppose paying costs – Where both parties have the financial capacity to…
Family Court of Australia
Lankester & Cribb [2018] FamCAFC 60 (6 April 2018)
Parenting – Where the primary judge made orders changing the child’s primary residence, providing for a six-month moratorium on the time the child spends with the mother and providing for a supervised time regime ultimately leading to unsupervised time – Adequacy…