religious belief

  • 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...
  • Bell & Bell 2013 FMCAfam 6

    by - Aug 7, 2015
    Parents disputed which religion their children should be raised in.  After separation the mother had joined a Jehovah Witness church group and she held meetings in her house twice a week.  A son later told the...
  • Amir & Alza and ANOR 2015 FamCA 341

    by - Jul 23, 2015
    The family included six children under the age of 15 years.  The children did not spend time with their father following incidents of family violence.  Two oldest children lived with the paternal grandfather, and the grandfather...
  • Khorsandi & Rashidi No 2. 2014

    by - May 11, 2015
    A family arrived in Australia as asylum seekers with children aged 7 and 6 years.  The parents separated and the father was absent from the family for 2 months.  When the father returned he applied to...
  • Elspeth & Peter 2006 FamCA

    by - Feb 24, 2015
    A couple with eight children separated when three children were under the age of 18 years.  The mother was a fourth generation member of a church that functioned as a closed community.  The father left both...
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