treatment report

The mother of children aged 10 and 7 years was in her third long term relationship.  The first relationship commenced when she was aged 18 years and produced 3 children.  The second relationship commenced when the mother was...

  A trial judge made orders enabling the father to spend time with the children, conditional upon a number of factors including successful completion of a three month residential rehabilitation program and completion of parenting programmes.  The father...

An expert who provided reportable therapy had provided a treatment report to Court although the report had not been requested by court.  The mother asked that a family consultant also be appointed as the treatment report did not address...

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 children who lived with their father and spent supervised contact with their mother.  Both the children and father saw separate treating psychologists.  A single expert witness had reviewed extensive material and had spoken...

A mother who had lived with the father in England appealed against an order requiring her to return to England with her two young children.  The mother reported that she had been subjected to verbal and...

A trial judge ordered that three children aged 12, 10 and 9 years live with their mother and have overnight access with their father only if the father provides the mother with a report by a...

A trial judge ordered that a 5 year old child live with the mother and spend time with the father.  There was a further order that if the mother’s treating psychiatrist determined that the mother was...

When the parents lived together the mother had been unable to cope with her young daughter while the father worked, resulting in the couple separating and in an order for the child to live with the...

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...

A judge issued the following orders regarding two children aged 6 years: to live with their father and for the father to have sole parental responsibility for the mother to see the children at a contact...

Evidence was given that the father of a 6 year old had a psychotic condition of schizoaffective disorder and had exhibited family violence.  The father’s own family had taken out apprehension of violence orders (AVO) against...