The
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) recently released research which
showed that only 6% of children under 17 spent equal time with both mother and
father. Yet regularly family lawyers will be regularly instructed to seek an
equal shared care arrangement, or what many clients refer to as ‘shared
custody’. Why doesn’t this frequent desire of separated parents often
materialise in reality?
There
are a variety of factors that the Family Law Act (Cth) 1975 requires be
considered in making Orders concerning parenting arrangements,...
Monday, 26 October 2015
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Deane & Deane 2014 FamCA 869
A couple had been married for several
years and had two daughter aged 7 and 3 years at the time of the hearing.
During one year the father’s own mother died and the father did not enjoy the
Christmas period as he felt that his grief had not been adequately recognised,
that there was no sexual intimacy with his wife, and that he would not be
missed if he left the family. The wife subsequently made allegations
about three types of incident over the holiday period: that the father had
thrown one daughter against a wall, that the husband...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)