Relocating from one place to another with children are not easy cases to consider. All avenues must be canvassed to ascertain the effects on the children being able to maintain the rights open to them as defined by the Family Law Act. Namely, that children have a right to a meaningful relationship with both parents. […]
Children – Mother took children into hiding, fearing that the father posed a threat to their lives – Court agreed there “was no safe alternative” – Order made that father spend no time with the children – Suppression order made as to mother’s address – Father allowed to correspond with the children (to facilitate any […]
Unilateral relocation interstate for urgent medical treatment for mother who then decided to stay away permanently. How devastating it is for the parent who find that the other parent decides to move without consent 1300km away and take the children. Don’t parents think of the impact separating children from the other parent has on them? […]
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 cases charged, convicted and sentenced respectively to a good behaviour bond and to three months’ imprisonment whereupon the mother separated from him. A child was […]
