Where your partner’s abuse poses an unacceptable risk to the safety and welfare of the child and impact to the your parenting capacity, the court will make orders that the child is to spend no time with the abusive parent. If you would like to know more about the...
Do Parents Who View Porn Present As a Risk to Their Children? Does your partner view porn? The online world has increasingly contributed to relationship problems and breakdowns. In child custody disputes the issue of a parent’s internet use is also becoming a growing...
The Challenges of Coercive Control Legislation by Greta Madi Creating new offences which proscribe psychological harm to victims is fraught with uncertainty and thus lawmakers should be wary of creating reactive laws that are soon after rendered redundant.[1] It is...
A mother who was found to pose an “unacceptable risk of psychological and emotional harm” to her six-year-old child has appealed the decision before the Full Court. The case of Willmore & Menendez involved allegations by the Father of the Mother engaging in...
By Lloyd Skinner Single, older, and non-home owning women have been identified as being increasingly at risk of economic hardship including homelessness and poverty (Darab & Hartman, 2013). This problem is significantly caused by issues of family breakdown such as...
Court-sanctioned Family Violence Intervention Orders (FVIO) are the first port of call for victims of family violence. Anna Goldsborough, a magistrate specialising in family violence, believes that intervention orders are a crucial method in curbing actions of future...
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