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The term “child custody” is being replaced with other family law terms: child residence, child access, visitation, shared custody, joint custody and sole custody
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Child / kid support choices
There is a range of choices on supporting your kids in the eyes of the law.
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You can choose to arrange child support without any assistance, without lawyers and still be keeping to the law.
If you receive child / kid support and receive only the base rate of Family Tax Benefit Part A (or you don’t receive family assistance payments at all), you and the other parent can arrange your child support to suit you. Learn more
Parents who choose this option make all the arrangements – you both decide how much child support should be paid and how it should be paid. Get more help on child custody here.
Another option is private collect.
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More kids care and child protection cases will be resolved out of courts through mediation.
This is a great win for families all round – lower costs, less stress and ideally better resolutions.
Alternate dispute resolutions are to be introduced in to the Children Court so kids, mothers and fathers can be more involved in the decision that shape their lives.
BRAVO the legal system..now you need to review the incarceration rate!
The smh.com.au reported that the aim is to get the family engaged in the process and not get their back yup because someones imposing something on them that’s completely unfair or unreasonable.
Mediation out of court is the way to go, this is consistent with our western values.
Fathers will save more money this way
A father’s love is precious, but bad dads still cause damage
ADELE HORIN
June 26, 2010
I am surrounded by young fathers and expectant fathers. At the office they come and go from leave spent with their newborns, flashing baby photos, discussing strange new feelings of exhilaration and anxiety. They are redefining father-love. They will know how to plait their daughter’s hair, and where the other ballet shoe is hidden. They will know what their son likes to eat and how to cook it. And if the boy falls over and hurts himself when the pair is kicking a ball around, neither will have to call for the mother.
The mothers, as things stand, will end up spending more time with the children. But these fathers are intent on building an intimate relationship of the kind that often eluded fathers and children in the past. It’s not intuitive to mothers to know the difference between a cry of hunger and of sadness, or to sense when a child is feeling scared. That knowledge is a product of time spent, attention paid, and hard work. For a range of reasons, mostly to do with gender roles and expectations and work commitments, many fathers have remained outside the intimate circle. It is no wonder young fathers proclaim they want to be different from their own distant dads and are willing to put in the effort.
Compared with the men around me, a startlingly different picture of fathers is painted in a report that landed on my desk – a picture of fathers who used their emotional, physical and psychological power to terrorise their wives and children. These are the fathers who, far from building a strong connection with their children, or developing the competence and patience that parenting requires, inflict trauma on their children through hurting them and/or their mothers. But when the marriage breaks up, these fathers expect to “share the care”.
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The report, No Way to Live, by the University of Sydney academic Lesley Laing, adds to the mounting evidence that the 2006 changes to the Family Law Act which put greater emphasis on shared parenting, and children’s right to maintain a “meaningful relationship with both parents”, went too far. The amendments failed to provide the promised protections against abusive parents of either sex. But in essence the changes, pushed by men’s groups, were built on an idealistic view of fathering that assumed nearly all fathers are like the young ones in my office.
Partly as a result of the legal changes, and the community’s understanding of them, children are being forced into unsafe hands.
The former Family Court judge Richard Chisholm pointed out the deficiencies in the law in a report on family violence commissioned by the federal Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, who has ignored its recommendations. Harder to ignore is an even bigger study of violence and family law on his desk that is also expected to make a strong case for changes.
On top of that, there is the recent Family Law Council’s study and a draft report by the Australian Law Reform Commission, all telling the government the same story: the family law system needs to be fixed.
For more go to…..
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-fathers-love-is-precious-but-bad-dads-still-cause-damage-20100625-z9lg.html
I was just wondering i am looking into taking custody of my 2 year old son i am single father living on my own i work 38 hours a week and would give that away to be with my boy how would i get on? Can i get the same treatment from the government that my sons mother gets now?
my ex will not let me see my kids at all but still gets child support off me. its to expensive to get a lawyer, mediation broke down badly because of her demands. i need to go to court, who can help if i cant get a lawyer because the sexist legal aid system wont help either and i’m unemployed now aswell.
just wondering my son wants to come and live with me he turns 11 in january at what age is he allowed to come live with me or do i hAVE TO WAIT UNTIL he is 16 he does not want to live with his mother
I have custoday/visitation rights legally to see my 5yo son. His mum intends to move from Sydney to Bourke which is about 10 hours drive one way…where do I stand in this picture?
I last saw my daughter when she was 7. She is now 13 years and wants to legally change her surname to her mothers married name. Her mother has always made her use this name but for a passport she needs me to sign that it’s ok. Child support say that I cannot pay child support unless the mother claims it. I have said no to signing this piece of paper and I am now being taken to court. What are my chances of (A) not having name change allowed, (B) getting some visitation rights and (C) resuming child support? Mother has always said that the original court orders were just a piece of paper and she didn’t have to allow me to see her. When I last went to pick up my child, mother had sent camping with friends even though it was my weekend. I have not had money to fight in court as I have already done this 3 times. Any advice would be great. Thanks