FAMILY LAW – CHILDREN – with whom the child lives – where each parent presents with vulnerabilities and reduced parental capacity – Paternal grandparents seek lives with orders – Entrenched mistrust and hostility between parents, between mother and grandparents and between mother’s new partner and paternal family –Parents have little capacity or willingness to promote a relationship with the other – Grandparents present a stable and responsible relationship for the child - Best interests of the child to live with and receive predominant care from the grandparents – Child to spend time with parents from this stable base FAMILY LAW – CHILDREN – Parental responsibility – Proposal that the parents and grandparents have equal shared parental responsibility – Discussion of framework of Act in relation to equal shared parental responsibility and non-parents – Parties unable to communicate and consult as required by Act – In child’s best interests that the grandmother have sole parental responsibility for ultimate decisions – Nature and structure of orders as orders require parties to attempt consultation and agreement austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FamCA/2008/1064.html?stem=0&synonyms=0&query=pieterse
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