practicable

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 alleged that she had been subjected to family violence and took two children aged 8 and 6 years to visit members of her extended family overseas.  The mother returned only because of a court...

The judge commented that orders for equal shared parental responsibility are usually made only when parents have similar views and are able to communicate with and to cooperate with each other (co-parent).  In this case the...

A couple had an order for shared care. The mother then applied to relocate with three children aged 10, 8 and 5 years to a town 78km away. The trial judge allowed the relocation. The father...

The judge ordered that the children live with the mother and, provided the father lives within 50 kilometers of the children’s school and that visits are practicable, the children spend substantial and significant time with the...

Parents of children aged 12 and 10 years had been separated with an order granting the father fortnightly access that was supervised until the children were aged 12 years.  The father had displayed family violence by...

The Family Law Act refers to ‘reasonable grounds to believe.’  The judge found that facts that provide reasonable grounds for a suspicion or belief do not lead to a positive finding of abuse or violence. Probability...

When parents were separated, a mother on two occasions asked the father to take on increased care of their two children as she experienced difficulty parenting the son who had learning difficulties (unable to cope). One...