children & parenting
Amelia Leyden – Accredited Specialist in Family Law
Children and Parenting
Everyone is different. Tailor your parenting arrangements to suit your family. Consider the unique needs of each family member, as you tailor your parenting agreements. Child and parenting legal areas, that we can help you with:
- Parental responsibility – the major long-term decisions about children (like religion, school or surnames, passports and medical treatment)
- Living arrangements – who a child lives with and spends time with
- Parenting conditions – such as communication between parents or changeovers, supervision and alcohol consumption and drug screens
- Consent Orders – convert your agreement in a Court Order without going to Court
- Court proceedings – going to Court for Parenting Orders
- Parenting Plans –private parenting agreements
- Contravention Applications – where a person appears to have breached a Parenting Order
- Family violence and connections to support services
- Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
- Local or interstate relocation – a parent moving a child’s home without agreement from the other parent
- International child abduction – a parent moving a child’s home overseas, or refusing to return to Australia after an overseas ‘holiday’ without agreement from the other parent’
- Paternity and parentage
- Grandparents’ rights
- Step-parents
- Same-sex parenting – including surrogacy and sperm donors
- Child Support
- Court consent for special medical procedures for children (such as gender transitions)