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Children aged 9 and 7 years who were of Aboriginal and South Sea Islander heritage lived with their mother.  Both the paternal grandmother and her late husband had extensive involvement in the Indigenous and South Sea...

The case involved a father who had a history of erratic supervised visits (contact limited involvement).  The child had been referred to the child protection Department.  The ICL submitted that it was difficult to conclude that...

The parents of children aged 13, 11 & 9 years had separated 7 years earlier.  The mother alleged that during the relationship the father had perpetrated family violence upon her, and that the children’s refusal to see or...

The mother appealed against an order for equal shared parental responsibility.  The father had not seen the child for 15 months before the trial, and did not attend the hearing (contact limited).  The judge found that...

Parents had been separated for five years and the children aged 16, 14 and 7 years lived with the mother.  All three children had decided against spending time with the father, with no contact for four...

The case involved three children, one aged 14 and twins aged 12 years.  The oldest child had brought a knife to a handover and threatened to kill the father with the knife, saying that the father...

  Concepts used in family law courts to describe personalities of parents who brought a dispute to Court were studied, based on a sample of cases summarised in Complexfamilies. Concepts to Describe Personality The DSM-5 international system for classifying...