Clear message for Custodial Parents, encourage the relationship between children and the Non Custodial Parent

There was nothing in the judgment to suggest the mother had denigrated the father, only that she hadn’t encouraged a good relationship between the children and their father. The girl told her court counsellor that she didn’t like that her father had left the family and now had a new girlfriend, whom she didn’t like either.

But Benjamin made the decision to move the children with amendments to the Family Law Act in mind. These amendments, colloquially known as the “shared parenting” provisions, were introduced by the Howard government in 2006. They say that children “have the right to know and be cared for by both parents, regardless of whether their parents are married, separated, have never been married or have never lived together”.

Children also have a “right to spend time on a regular basis with, and communicate on a regular basis with, both their parents”.

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