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  • Ramirez & Ramirez 2013 FamCA 153

    by - Oct 24, 2015
    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...
  • Abney & Paris 2013 FMCAfam 7

    by - Aug 7, 2015
    A mother was raised as Christian by her parents who had worked as missionaries.  The mother converted to Islam and met a partner who considered her to be a devout Muslim.  The couple married and had two...
  • Elford & Elford 2015 FamCA 192

    by - Jul 10, 2015
    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...
  • Study of Personalities of Parents in Family Law Settings

    by - Jun 15, 2015
      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...
  • KB, DOHS and CR & KR 2008 VChC 5

    by - Apr 1, 2015
    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...
  • DOHS v Mr D & Ms B 2008, VChC 2

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    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’...
  • Scranton & Scranton 2012 FamCAFC 54

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    The case involved two children aged about 7 and 10 years at the time.  Two simultaneous expert reports indicated that the father had an obsessive personality disorder and that at times he became so completely preoccupied with...
  • Dickson & Fabra 2013 FMCAfam 43

    by - Mar 4, 2015
    Parents disputed arrangements for their son aged 9 years.  The father was diagnosed with hydrocephalus that impacted on his personality leading to a rigid and obsessive style of interacting with people (personality rigid).  This condition led...
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