The Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia (‘the Courts’) have developed and implementation the Lighthouse Project, an initiative taken by the Courts to screen for risk, with a primary focus on improving outcomes for families.
The recent passage of the Family Law Amendment (Risk Screening Protections) Bill 2020 by Parliament on 9…
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,…
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…
Family Court of Australia - Full Court
Jasapas & Johns (No. 2) [2020] FamCAFC 203 (17 August 2020)
Parenting – where the mother appeals from the second set of final parenting orders made in these proceedings – where the primary judge’s orders provided for the children to be transferred from the mother’s care to live with…
Family Court of Australia - Full Court
Gosai & Gosai [2020] FamCAFC 176 (23 July 2020)
Parenting – where the primary judge dismissed the mother’s application for the appointment of an Independent Children’s Lawyer without inviting submissions or giving reasons – denial of procedural fairness – where there was a body of objective evidence and…
Family Court of Australia
Joplin & Parkins [2020] FamCA 403 (26 June 2020)
Practice and Procedure – application for a single expert appointed by the Federal Circuit Court to be released from his obligation, now to this Court, as a Chapter 15 Expert in order to give evidence in the applicant’s criminal trial – where…
Many parents and children experiencing high conflict divorce and separation are in desperate need of psychological support. Court delays and costs mean that for many families, conflict and uncertainty add to their emotional stress. There is a lack of available, specialised psychological support for such families and desperately few places that family lawyers can refer…
Family Court of Australia – Full Court
Carrington & Gunby [2020] FamCAFC 117 (15 May 2020)
Parenting – contravention of parenting orders – whether the father demonstrated that he had a reasonable excuse for retaining the child – whether the father believed on reasonable grounds that the retention of the child was necessary to protect the…
Family Court of Australia – Full Court
Padanowska & Padanowski [2020] FamCAFC 97 (23 April 2020)
Interim parenting – where interim parenting orders were made after the primary judge made a finding on disputed and untested evidence – where the finding was critical to other findings made by the primary judge as to what was…