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Harsh Reality for Wife in Need of Maintenance
20 December 2010
The recent case of Dawson & Dawson (2010) dealt with the issue of spousal maintenance and the reasonable standard of living for spouses, post divorce.
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Child Not Allowed to Travel Overseas on Holiday with Mother
9 December 2010
In the recent decision of Lee & Zhu (2010) the Federal Magistrate did not allow a mother to take the parties eight year old child to China for a five week holiday as the child would miss 17 days of school and this was not in the child’s best interests.
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Parental Religious Differences in Raising Children
9 December 2010
In the case of Macri (2010) the Federal Magistrate granted the father an injunction against the mother’s proposal for the formal introduction of their children (aged 8 and 10) into the Jewish faith by allowing the children to participate in their Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah when they become of age (13 for boys and 12 for girls).
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A Second Bite at the Cherry for Parenting Orders?
7 December 2010
There is currently a Bill before Parliament [Family Law Amendment (Validation of Certain Parenting Orders and Other Measures) Bill 2010], which if passed, will allow parties, in certain circumstances, the opportunity of going back to Court to apply for a variation of their current parenting Orders, without having to prove a significant change in the child's circumstances (the Rice & Asplund test).
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Court Decides on Parenting Orders for Homosexual Parents
7 December 2010
In the recent case of Wilson & ors and Roberts & ors (19 August 2010), the Court had to consider what would be in the best interests of a two year old child where the biological mother and her female partner opposed an application by the biological father and his male partner to spend substantial time with the child.
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Family Violence in the Spotlight
6 December 2010
If you are amongst the one in five parents who has ongoing safety concerns about your child’s contact with their other parent, then the proposed changes to how the Family Law Act deals with Family Violence, will be of interest to you.
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