Case Summary- Bircher & Bircher The case of Bircher & Bircher was an appeal brought by the mother of a successful contravention application brought by the father. The primary judge found that the mother contravened parenting orders on three occasions by withholding children from time with the father and by taking them to medical appointments, …
Parenting Orders

Parenting Plans and Consent Orders are the two options for documentation of agreed care arrangements for children.

A Family Law Case where the nature of the parents relationship and conflict generally make it hard to get equal custody arrangements Although there are many applications by fathers to get equal custody arrangements put in place with their children, even after mothers have already had interim or long- term primary care, there are some …

Changing Parenting Orders – how to change custody orders Variation of Parenting Orders- when can you change them? To set aside, cancel or vary any final parenting order, parties must meet the threshold test. This test is set out in the case of Rice v Asplund (1979) FLC 90-725. This case provides that where final …

Social media and family law: The impact on parenting proceedings One increasingly popular form of evidence in parenting proceedings is that which is obtained via social media. Evidence obtained from sources such as Facebook and Twitter can sometimes provide beneficial (and conversely sometimes very damaging) evidence for parents. Social media and family law is …

So you finally got some court orders about your child’s right to spend time with you. But what happens when the other parent is withholding the children with excuses and parenting orders are breached? This was looked at in the recent case of Raki & Perez Varela (2018) Background of Raki v Perez case Parties …