Family Law Parenting

Your priority is your children and you seek to ensure their best interests are promoted by ensuring appropriate arrangements are made that deal with but are not limited to the following issues:  

• Where the children live

• The time they spend with each parent

• Schooling

• Overseas travel

• Religious upbringing

• Medical discussions

• Communication

• Protecting the child from harm

Parenting agreements

This is for you if you have reached an agreement with the other parent of you children and you need our assistance documents and formalise those agreed parenting agreements

Parenting negotiations

This product is for you if you need out expert assistance negotiating future parenting arrangements with your spouse and/or their legal representatives. You may have:

• Poor communication with the other parent;

• Concerns about other parent’s parenting skills ;

• A belief that the arrangements the other parent seeks are not in your children’s best interests.

We have over 20 years’ experience in guiding parents to achieve common sense , child focused parenting outcomes that minimise the impact of the separation on your children’s lives and promote their interests moving forward.

Parenting court disputes 

This product is for you if your child focussed attempts to resolve parenting arrangements are unsuccessful because:

The other parent has no parental insight and is emotionally abusive to your children because:

• They are a narcissist who is very controlling and puts their interests before the children ;

• They are a hysterical, obsessive parent who believes it is their right to unilaterally make important decisions about the children and shut you out ;

• They believe your children should by directly involved in adult disputes;

• They emotionally lean on your children to meet their emotional needs as opposed to protecting the children’s emotional wellbeing;

• They are physically abusive, and you need to protect the children from physical harm;

• They are recalcitrant and difficult .

We are experts in dealing with narcissists and emotionally unstable parents. Our objective is to help you finalise a child focussed parenting arrangement because until that occurs your children reman hostages to the adult dispute, and you remain stressed and anxious about their future. We have had significant success achieving child focussed arrangements with narcissists without court proceedings. However, court proceedings may be necessary to protect the interests of your child.

Our philosophy is to use court proceedings to bring peace not war. We use the court to help control your narcissistic spouse when needed, but our objective is to always resolve parenting arrangements quickly exit the court system without the need for a final trial.

We have a strategic plan for people like you, who need the court’s assistance to bring peace for your children.

There are specific parental issues that cannot be agreed and need a court’s determination. These include but not limited to:

• Recovery applications – You need to bring this urgent application if the other parent has disappeared with your children or relocated with them without your consent.

• Relocation – If you seek to move from your current residence to another state, country or a significant distance which impacts on the other parent’s ability to spend time with your children and you cannot reach an agreement in relation to this issue with the other parent.

• Surname – If you or the other parent seeks to change your child’s surname and you cannot agree.

• Schooling – If you and the other parent cannot agree on where your children should attend school .

• Overseas travel – If you and the other parent cannot agree on overseas travel arrangements.

• Residence/time – If you and your spouse cannot agree on the time the children spend with you. 

We will tailor a plan to ensure your children’s best interests are promoted.

Child Support Assessment Disputes

This product is for you if you are in dispute with the other parent of your children regarding a Child Support Assessment by the Department of Human Services.

• The intention in Australia is for matters relating to child support to be dealt with by parents directly with the child support agency without the assistance of a lawyer. In many cases the Child Support Agency achieves this intention but there are many cases that don’t.

The child support system and the formula used to calculate child support, does not always reflect all the financial circumstances of children especially with children who have special needs or higher income families.

Binding Child Support Agreements/Limited Child Support Agreements

This product is for you if you seek to avoid the child support assessment process or exit the assessment process by entering into an agreement with the other parent that provides certainty with respect to:

• Future schooling;

• Payment of ongoing school fees;

• Payment of other education expenses;

• Payment of important medical expenses;

• Payment of extracurricular activity costs;

• Other payments to the other parent, if any.

This product will give you more control over where your financial contributions to your children are applied because the formula used to calculate assessments does not always fairly reflect all financial circumstances relating to children.

Binding Child Support Agreement Disputes

This product is for you if you have a Binding Child Support Agreement with the other parent and either you or the other parent seek to withdraw from the Agreement without the other parent’s consent.