graduated approach

A father applied to extend his time with an infant.  An expert recommended an access plan where the father’s time with the infant increased in a graduated approach. The judge ordered a graduated approach where the infant spend 3.5 hours per...

For three years after separation, children aged 15, 12 and 10 years had at the mother’s insistence spent time with the father only at the mother’s house.  The mother then severed all of the children’s interaction with...

A mother aged 20 years who experienced mental health and drug issues applied for clarification of the requirements of a supervision order for a child aged 3 years.  The child had lived with his maternal grandfather since the...

Children aged 9 and 5 years spent no time with the father for four years after the parents separated (long absent parent), and the mother applied for sole parental responsibility.   The father applied for a therapeutic re-introduction of the...

A family consultant recommended that an infant’s time with his father should follow a graduated approach, starting at two occasions with the father during the week. It should then be moved to one overnight stay and then into two...

A child aged 12 years had special needs due to mild cerebral palsy, mild intellectual disability and epilepsy.   The father had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.  The child was in the primary care of the mother.  The...

Orders were made for a child aged 4 years to live with the father and spend time with the mother.  Two years later the mother applied to reverse the orders so that she became the primary...

Four boys aged 14, 12, 11 and 7 years had lived with the father for two years following separation.  The youngest child had moved to live with the mother for eight months while the three older children continued to...

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...

A child aged 3 years lived with the mother and spent time with the father.  The judge ordered that the time spent with the father increase in a graduated approach according to the child’s age as...

The mother and her young adult daughter alleged that the father engaged in family violence.  Evidence was given that the parents were a high conflict couple who exposed the child aged ten years to their arguments...

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...

A single mother of infant twins aged about 4 months observed lesions on the faces of the twins and she took the children to a doctor.  The lesions did not heal while the children were in...

Parents disputed a parenting plan for a 3 year old child. The judge did not allow the father to submit his evidence comprising 1192 pages but requested a summary of 10,000 words. The mother reported observing...

A child aged 7 years with a diagnosis of mild autism lived with his mother and spent time with his father (autism spectrum disorder). The father applied for an access plan to increase his time with the child....

The case involved an infant aged 15 months whose parents separated when the infant was aged 2 weeks, and where the parents lived in different states.  The infant barely recognised the father during the hearing and...

Separated parents had three children aged 7, 6 and 3 years who lived with their mother.  The father applied for an access plan to increase the time he spent with the children.  Due to the children’s...

The case involved allegations that the father had participated in sexual abuse with children aged 7 and 6 years at the time of the hearing.  The parents separated after the mother expressed concern about the way the...

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...

The case involved a dispute between parents and maternal grandparents of children aged 9 and 7 years.  Contact between the children and grandparents ended following a dispute.  Five years later the grandparents applied to spend time...

A father applied for unsupervised access of his two children who were a daughter aged 12 years and a son aged 9 years following several years when access had been supervised due to an unsubstantiated allegation...

The case involved parents who lived together with four children: MD aged 6.5 years, AD aged 4 years, ND aged 2.25 years and SD aged 4 months.   All four children had been removed from the parents’...

Two girls were aged 5 and 6 years.  The girls lived with their mother who had chronic schizophrenia and their grandmother.  The mother had a further child aged 14 years who lived with her father.  The...

A child aged 6 years lived with the maternal grandparents.  The mother had disengaged from both her parents and the child.  The father had not seen the child for 6 years and the child did not...

The father of a child aged 2 years sought an access plan involving a graduated approach where the time the child spent with him increased progressively. At the trial both the father and ICL agreed to...

A judge ordered a progressive increase (graduated approach) in the number of overnight stays with her father from 1 to 2 overnight stays when the child reached the age of about 2 years (age of child). ...

A father asked to review orders for his 3 year old daughter 15 months after orders were issued.  The father claimed changed circumstances saying that he had formed a new relationship (re-partnered), his daughter was of...