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Mother’s resistance to Father’s time

Mother’s resistance to Father’s time Green & Townsend SHORT HISTORY OF CURRENT PROCEEDINGS On 19 August 2013, while B was in Western Australia, the…
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Vexatious proceedings and costs orders

Vexatious proceedings and costs orders Aiden & Grant This matter comes before me as the mother’s application filed on 30 August 2016 to review…
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Sunshine Coast Family Law

Sunshine Coast Family Law Freedom Law: “Being in a situation where you need legal representation is stressful enough without feeling like your legal representation…
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Facebook service approved

Facebook service approved Maguire & Klein Summary – Effecting Service – Where the mother has not attended Court, filed documents or participated – Where the…
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New Zealand relocation

New Zealand relocation Merritt & Watson The benefit to the child of having a meaningful relationship with both parents The term ‘meaningful’ is not…
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Risk of sexual abuse

Risk of sexual abuse Leaton & Tuppahige Summary – where the parties are in dispute as to the parenting arrangements of the children – where…
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Stay of orders

Stay of orders Ulster & Viney By an Application in an Appeal filed on 2 September 2016, Mr Ulster (“the father”) seeks a stay…
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Expedition of leave to appeal

Expedition of leave to appeal Tullo & Tullo Ms Tullo (“the wife”) and Mr Tullo (“the husband”) are engaged in property settlement proceedings undertaken…
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Hero Judges and social justice

Hero Judges and social justice Paxton & Paxton Impermissible deviations from the holding in “Stanford” Mr Hall placed reliance upon the decision of Federal…
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Change of name

Change of name CS v SMR Background [1] This is an application whereby the applicant mother seeks an order of the court that the…
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Secret to a happy life

Secret to a happy life A personal development guru who reckons she has cracked the formula to a happy life, has identified 15 things…
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Use of emails to be menacing, harassing or offensive

Use of emails to be menacing, harassing or offensive R v Silber In September and October 2013 a construction authority was constructing the light…
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Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!!! Gaelic and Welsh influence An early 20th-century Irish Halloween mask displayed at theMuseum of Country Life. Today’s Halloween customs are thought to…
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Liquor defined

Liquor defined Queensland Police Service v Murray Woorabinda is a relatively small indigenous community about 170 kilometres south west of Rockhampton. It is situated…
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Defamation via Facebook

Defamation via Facebook Kelly v Levick Summary of facts [1] At 2:45pm on 24 November, 2014 the Defendant posted on his Facebook page: “June…
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Trial judge errors set aside property settlement

Trial judge errors set aside property settlement Zabarac & Zabarac and Anor FAMILY LAW – APPEAL – PROPERTY SETTLEMENT – Where the grounds asserted…
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Duress test for binding financial agreements

Duress test for binding financial agreements Kennedy & Thorne SUMMARY – BINDING FINANCIAL AGREEMENTS – Where the appellant trustees of the estate of the late…
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Delay in delivery of judgment

Delay in delivery of judgment Folett & Langley Summary – whether 16 month delay between trial and judgment rendered trial judge’s credit findings unsafe –…
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Absconding child appeal dismissed

Absconding child appeal dismissed WGOC & GH and Anor Summary: Where the father appeals against final parenting orders according the mother sole parental responsibility…
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Mutual and multiple false assertions

Mutual and multiple false assertions Timms & Timms Summary – Entrenched parenting dispute about three children aged from five to eight years old –…
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Mother has child record Family Report interview

Mother has child record Family Report interview Isaac & Isaac Summary – Application for a Recovery Order by the Father for the parties’ two children…
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Post-separation superior contributions by Husband

Post-separation superior contributions by Husband Molloy & Molloy Summary – Property Settlement Application – Significant contributions by one party post-separation The husband says that…
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Best interests and relocation

Best interests and relocation Monk & Malone Summary – where the father seeks an order that three children who have lived primarily with the mother…
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Departure from child support – insufficient evidence

Departure from child support – insufficient evidence Falconer & Babett Summary – Application for departure – mother seeking departure order based on the special needs…

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