Case summaries

The Full Court has dismissed a father’s application to stay orders requiring the return of two children to Japan under the Hague Child Abduction Convention, following the dismissal of his appeal and the children’s subsequent

The Court has dismissed a father’s appeal against parenting orders concerning two children with significant health and behavioural needs, despite identifying an error in the primary judge’s finding of coercive and controlling family violence. Riethmuller

The Court has revisited an earlier ruling admitting a covert recording of alleged sexual assaults in family law property proceedings, following the High Court’s decision in *Potter v The King*. Parker J found that South

The Full Court has allowed a wife’s appeal against property settlement orders following a 22-year marriage, while dismissing her appeal against parenting orders that changed the residence of the parties’ two younger children to the

The Full Court has granted a husband leave to appeal aspects of property settlement orders made after more than a decade of litigation and three final hearings, where he was subject to a harmful proceedings

The Court has declined to enforce a financial agreement negotiated directly between parties following a marriage of more than 40 years, despite the agreement having been signed and partly performed. The husband had provided the

The Full Court has considered an appeal arising from property settlement orders following a 22-year marriage involving a substantial asset pool and complex trust and company interests. The decision examines whether a contractual right to

The Full Court has dismissed an appeal by a child’s paternal grandfather and step-grandmother against orders refusing them time with their four-year-old grandchild, whom they had never met. The Court rejected the argument that the

The Full Court has dismissed an appeal against final parenting and financial orders concerning a child with special needs, where the appellant father’s time was ordered to remain supervised. The Court confirmed that open-ended or

The Full Court has largely dismissed a father’s appeal against final parenting orders concerning two children aged 15 and 13, where the orders allowed their time and communication with him to occur in accordance with

The Court has ordered an 11-year-old child to live with his father after the father-child relationship deteriorated to the point that they had not spent face-to-face time together for almost two years. The Court found

The Court has dismissed a mother’s application to reconsider final parenting orders concerning three children, finding that she had not established a significant change of circumstances under s 65DAAA of the Family Law Act. Applying

The Court has declared that provisions of a financial agreement dealing with property on the breakdown of a marriage were of no force or effect where the parties reconciled and remained married until the husband’s

The Court has ordered an unmarried father to contribute towards the mother’s childbirth maintenance and pregnancy-related medical expenses under s 67B of the Family Law Act, including costs associated with IVF, an egg donor and

The Full Court has dismissed a father’s appeal against property settlement orders following the breakdown of a de facto relationship involving three children, providing important guidance on the treatment of post-separation depletion of the property

The Court has allowed an appeal arising from property settlement proceedings following a 23-year de facto relationship involving a net asset pool of approximately $7.36 million. Although both parties had advanced a single global assessment

The Court has allowed a mother’s appeal against property settlement orders that awarded her just 10.5% of a net asset pool of approximately $3.48 million following a relatively short de facto relationship. Although the father

The Court has refused a father leave to appeal a harmful proceedings order made under s 102QAC of the Family Law Act, following family law proceedings that had generated approximately 492 filed documents and 31

The Court has ordered a graduated progression of time between a father and his 14-year-old son after the child ceased spending time with him more than two years earlier, following a long period of successful