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Parenting Arrangments
When you need a Family Lawyer or Mediator in Taree or the Mid-Coast area - Call Us - we can help
- When you separate, day to day decisions about your children can be more difficult and stressful.
- We can provide you with practical advice regarding your children and the next stages following separation.
- The advice and assistance we can offer you includes topics like:
- • Adult child maintenance
- • Child abuse
- • Child support *
- • Consent Orders
- • Family violence and domestic abuse
- • International child abduction – Hague Convention
- • Living and care arrangements (lives with / spends time with / holidays
- • Parenting Agreements
- • Representation of children in Family Court and children’s Court
- • Rights of grandparents and other family members
- • Schooling disputes
- • Where the children live relocation
- * If you like to to know more about the Child Support Estimator
- Do I need a Court Order?
- Yes, sometimes you do need Court Orders but sometimes you do not. There are a number of options available to you to to help you agree on arrangements for your children.. Our recommendation depends on your circumstances because no two families are alike and neither are their problems. of your case.
- Do I need to attend mediation?
- Save for in cases involving family violence or in urgent circumstances parties to a parenting dispute are required to participate in mediation with a registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner prior to initiating Family Court proceedings concerning children.
- How long will it take to resolve my matter?
- If you are unable to reach an agreement by yourself, or by using a lawyer, or by going to mediation, it may take up to 2 to 2½ years to reach a final hearing in Court and may cost you tens of thousands of dollars.