Family Law Blog

Given the prevalence of blended families and other less traditional (for want of a better term) family arrangements, the concept of a nuclear family in 2015 is at best blurred and, more likely, irrelevant. There is often confusion about how the Courts can assist in allowing a person to have a child live with them, spend time with them or otherwise seek a Parenting Order.

The Sunday Telegraph (10 April 2011) reports that a mother who allegedly kidnapped her child back in 2008, prompting a two year world-wide hunt by her husband, is set to face trial in Sydney.