Hays & Department of Communities and Justice [2023] FedCFamC1A 3 (16 January 2023) This was an appeal of the primary judge’s decision...

In Family Law litigation parenting relocation cases undoubtedly stand out as some of the most complex, emotional and challenging.

In Blanding & Blanding [2016] FamCAFC 21 the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia considered an appeal by the father in relation to the Orders made by a trial judge in the first instance refusing the father’s application for equal time and granting the relocation application in favour of the mother to allow her to relocate with the three children of the relationship to Central Coast, in the circumstances where all of the children were mostly unsupportive of the relocat