emotional abuse

  • Watson & Burton 2015 FamCA 549

    by - Oct 24, 2015
    The mother of children aged 10 and 7 years was in her third long term relationship.  The first relationship commenced when she was aged 18 years and produced 3 children.  The second relationship commenced when the mother was...
  • Gillard & Gillard 2015 FamCAFC 169

    by - Oct 23, 2015
    Parents had separated 7 years earlier.  A trial judge found that the father of children aged 12 and 10 years had engaged in a pattern of emotionally abusive behaviour that undermined the children’s relationships with their mother, and...
  • Redmond & Stolz (No 3) 2015 FamCA 692

    by - Oct 23, 2015
    A judge found that the father’s text messages to the mother were derogatory, intimidating and threatening and constituted family violence against her and that the father must desist from this behaviour (emotional abuse).  The judge found that granting...
  • Giltson & Basfield 2014 FamCA 319

    by - Oct 24, 2015
    Evidence was given that a mother experienced post-traumatic stress disorder which she attributed entirely to the actions of the father as he had been emotionally controlling and abusive towards her.  The father denied that events described by the mother took place. ...
  • Jevons & Jevons 2014 FamCA 220

    by - Oct 24, 2015
    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...
  • Baldwin & Baldwin 2014 FamCA 43

    by - Aug 7, 2015
    A mother stated that her continuing ability to parent a 5 year old child would be affected if the father spent unsupervised time with the child.  The mother alleged both physical and sexual abuse by the...
  • Wilshaw & Wilshaw No 2, 2015 FamCA 343

    by - Jul 24, 2015
    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...
  • Wilson & Wilson 2015 FamCA 490

    by - Jul 24, 2015
    A mother was ordered to have supervised access with her child aged 13 years but she found it too difficult to meet conditions set by a contact centre.  The mother had alleged sexual abuse of the...
  • Seaver & Seaver 2015 FamCA 194

    by - Jun 17, 2015
    Parents of children aged 9 and 4 years separated.  The father re-partnered.   Soon after the mother reported that the children exhibited increased anxiety and the mother withheld the children.  The mother demanded that the father participate...
  • Thornton & Thornton 2015 FamCA 92

    by - Jun 29, 2015
      A mother alleged that two girls aged 3 and 6 years had been subjected to sexual abuse by their father. The mother submitted 169 items of information to support her concerns. The judge found that,...
  • Potter & Ross 2015 FamCA 26

    by - Mar 19, 2015
    Parents had disputed custody of their child aged 10 years over 8 years, with 4 family reports having been obtained.  Both parents alleged that the child was at risk of harm while in the care of the...
  • Gilliard & Gilliard 2015 FamCA 18

    by - Mar 17, 2015
    The case involved siblings who were separated, as one child aged 12 years initially lived with the father while twins aged 9 years lived with the mother (sibling separation). An expert reported that the father exhibited...
  • Cameron & Brown 2008 FamCA 773

    by - Mar 17, 2015
    The judge found that a father’s inspections and monitoring of the child and demands for an explanation for every mark or scrape are not only inappropriate but also obsessive and amounted to emotional abuse (personality rigid, parenting style rigid).  ...Read More
  • Froth & Schneider 2011 FamCA 378

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    The parents separated after 3 years of living together and had a daughter aged 6 years who had been living with her mother. When the child was aged 20 months the mother reported that the daughter...
  • Davidson & Davidson 2010 FamCA 5

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    The couple had twins aged 6 years at the time of the hearings.  The couple separated when the twins were 7 months old, and the twins lived with the mother and spent time with the father. ...
  • Wolford & Attorney-General’s Dept (Cth) 2014 FamCAFC 197

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    A mother who had lived with the father in England appealed against an order requiring her to return to England with her two young children.  The mother reported that she had been subjected to verbal and...
  • Mullen & Acken No 2. 2011 FamCA 772

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    A couple had three daughters aged 12, 11 and 9 years.  After separation the mother had on several occasions phoned her daughters and asked them to write to the ICL to pass on their negative experiences...
  • Ruth aka Hutton & Hutton 2011 FamCAFC 99

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    Parents separated and initially agreed about access arrangements for their child.  On four occasions the mother withheld the child from the father.  The mother then alleged that the father had sexually abused the child and this...
  • Oscar & Delaware 2012. FAMCA 211.

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    The father had arrived in Australia on a visitor’s visa and sought a visa for permanent residency.  The father had been in relationships with two women (Ms A & Ms D) within a 2 year period and...
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