overnight stays

A child was aged 3 years.  The father was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder and an expert opined that the father remained at risk of relapse.  The father had been charged with fighting.  The father reported...

The mother of a 7 year old child sought to reduce the time the child spent with the father pending an updated Family Report.  The mother also sought to disqualify the family consultant on the grounds of apprehension of...

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...

A father who had not seen the child for a year applied to introduce overnight stays for a child aged 6 years, and the mother proposed similar orders.  The father had pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault of...

A father of a 4 year old child was self-represented and conducted proceedings in such a persistent manner that the judge concluded that the father had single mindedly pursued his entitlements with a result that the...

Children were aged 8 years, 6 years and 18 months.  The children showed a stronger attachment to the mother as illustrated after they had been separated from the mother for a period of ten days. The...

A family violence order had been taken about against the father whose children were aged 8 and 5 years.  The parents were a high conflict couple.  The father had participated in supervised contact with the children,...

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 case involved a boy aged 9 years who had lived with his mother.  The mother re-partnered and had two younger children.  The father expressed concern that the child was exposed to family violence in the...

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...

A mother left the father when twins were aged 6 weeks old, moving into a Women’s Shelter and alleging family violence.  The father denied the domestic violence and claimed that the mother had used him to obtain...

A couple with an infant separated. Overnight stays The father applied to begin overnight stays for one night at a time when the child was aged 2 years and this was supported by a family consultant...

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 mother applied to relocate to another city with her child so that she could re-partner.  The mother gave evidence that she would be devastated if she was unable to relocate, and she would be physically...

Shared Time for Infants A policy document by the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Inc. provides guidelines for the following situations: overnight stays for infants under 2 years away from a primary caregivers can create...

Legislation in Australia allows people to apply for three types of intervention that affect family members: a parenting order from a Family Law Court (Family Circuit Court) a child protection order from a Children’s Court an...