Draft bill, to be published on Monday, aims to improve safety for separating families
The bill implements the recommendations ofto remove the presumption of equal shared “parental responsibility” because it appeared to be “leading to unjust outcomes and compromising the safety of children”.
The requirement for courts to consider “equal or substantial and significant time with each parent” will also be removed, although judges will still be able to make orders for shared parental responsibility and equal time. The paper explains that parents will no longer “automatically” have to consult each other on decisions like authorising medical treatment, giving responsibility solely to “the person who has the physical care of the children at the time in relation to day-to-day matters”.
The release of the bill follows a controversial family law inquiry in the last parliament, which elevated the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, to deputy chair andZoe Rathus, an expert on family law and domestic violence at Griffith University, told that inquiry thehad proved “extremely dangerous” and acted to prevent people from airing allegations of domestic violence in the family court.
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