parental disputes

A child aged 11 years was emotionally distressed and the parents disputed the reasons for this distress.  The mother reported that the child suffered violent and unpredictable mood changes when he would attack the mother verbally and would become abusive...

Dispute involved three children aged 17, 16 and 13 years.  Two older girls lived with the mother and the younger child had lived with the father for about a year.  The judge found that the father was...

The case involved a girl aged 12 years whose parents had been in ongoing conflict since they separated when she was aged 5 years (intractable conflict).  The child was described as mature. The judge noted there...

The judge commented that marriage breakdown often produces emotional turmoil and conflict that impacts on young children and that high conflict between parents can have devastating effects on a child’s emotional development.  It is not uncommon to see otherwise...

Parents of children aged 10, 8 and 6 years had been involved in ongoing intractable conflict.  The children had development and psychological/emotional problems and the parents disputed the reasons for this (child’s behaviour).  One child had...

A child aged 7 years who lived with the mother refused to continue to spend supervised time with her father, and no contacts had been arranged for a year despite efforts (refused contact).   Both parents had...

  The case involved three children aged 8, 6 and 4 years.   The father alleged that the mother had over a long period of time before and after their separation threatened him and the children (family violence)....

  The parents separated before the child was born.  The child who was aged 7 years at the time of the hearing had lived with the mother for six years before a family court issued an...

The child was aged 6 years at the time of the hearing, and had been previously cared for by the mother, father and paternal grandmother.  The mother was aged 16 years when the child was born,...