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October 2009

Courts leash net-love mums

Posted by Brigid Delane, MSN on October 29th, 2009 | Category:  Brigid Delaney  Relocation 

The explosion in popularity of internet dating has caused a new crisis among estranged fathers, a national men's rights group has told ninemsn. NineMSN 29 October 2009 Courts leash net-love mums By

This Is Your Brain Without Dad

Posted by Sys Admin on October 30th, 2009 | Category:  Pro Shared Care  shared care  Wall Street Journal 

Conventional wisdom holds that two parents are better than one. Scientists are now finding that growing up without a father actually changes the way your brain develops. This Is Your Brain Without

Replace shared care with Canada model

Posted by Caroline Overington on October 26th, 2009 | Category:  Caroline Overington 

THE Rudd government has been urged to replace shared parenting laws with a model similar to that of Canada, where shared parenting after divorce is not necessarily considered in the best interests of

Spotlight on shared parenting laws

Posted by Caroline Overington on October 20th, 2009 | Category:  Caroline Overington 

IF you are a separated parent, and your children are living in a shared-care arrangement with your former spouse, who should pay for their school uniforms? Caroline Overington | October 20, 2009 Wh

Court removes son because of risk from new partner

Posted by Ash Patil on October 19th, 2009 | Category:  Caroline Overington  mother’s boyfriend abusing child  mother’s boyfriend murdered child 

THE Family Court has removed a five-year-old boy from the care of his mother because she is living with a man whose own child, a daughter, died of neglect in a house with an "atrocious standard of hyg

Shared parenting laws on way out

Posted by Ash Patil on October 19th, 2009 | Category:  Caroline Overington 

THE Rudd government is planning to roll back the controversial shared parenting law passed in the final term of the Howard government, enraging men's groups, which say the laws have finally given them

Plan to roll back Howard’s shared parenting laws

Posted by Ash Patil on October 19th, 2009 | Category:  Caroline Overington 

THE Rudd government plans to roll back the Howard government's controversial shared parenting law, enraging men's groups. Caroline Overington October 19, 2009 The groups say the law, passed in the fi

Arthur Freeman’s father tried to stop accused murderer leaving home with his three children on the morning of Darcey Freeman’s death, court documents reveal

Posted by Paul Anderson on October 8th, 2009 | Category:  Darcy Freeman  Father murdered child  Child over bridge 

THE father of the man accused of murdering his little girl by throwing her off the West Gate Bridge tried to stop him leaving their coastal home and driving his three children back to Melbourne on the

Shillingsworth mum ’threatened to kill son’

Posted by AAP on October 8th, 2009 | Category:  Abusive Women  child abuse  child murder  Child in suitcase  mother abusing child  mother denying contact  mother murdered child  mother neglecting child  Murder  Violent Women 

A MOTHER threatened to kill her toddler son a year before violently shaking him and dumping his body in a suitcase, a Sydney court has been told. AAP | October 08, 2009 Court told mum threatened

Courts continue to grant access to violent parents

Posted by Caroline Overington on October 5th, 2009 | Category:  Australian Government Solicitor’s report into domestic violence law  Caroline Overington  federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland  The report  Domestic Violence Laws in Australia 

THE Family Court rarely makes orders preventing a parent from seeing their children, even in cases where there is a history of violence. Caroline Overington | October 05, 2009 That is the conclusio

Top court eyes joint care for parents

Posted by Nicola Berkovic on October 3rd, 2009 | Category:  Federal Magistrate John Coker  Graeme Page SC  High Court  Judge Kenneth Hayne  Louise Goodchild  Nicola Berkovic  Legal Aid 

THE High Court has agreed to hear an appeal into whether it was "reasonably practicable" to force a mother to stay in a remote mining town in western Queensland so her ex-husband could have equal cust