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Children's Matters, Parenting Plans & Orders

How to make arrangements for children during and after separation.
How separation affects children.

Contents

Children and separation
How children may react to separation and what they need after separation.

Making arrangements work for children
What the law requires when making future arrangements for children.

If you agree on arrangements
Parenting plans and consent orders, ways to record your agreements.

If you can't agree on arrangements
Court and other services available to assist with future arrangements for your children.

Applying to change an existing order
When an existing order can be changed and how you can seek a change.

Complying with orders about children
What happens when it is alleged a parenting order has not been complied with (has been contravened).

Relocation and travel
What you must do if you are moving and this move will limit the future time the children live with or spend with a parent or other significant person.

Recovery orders
A court can make an order for the recovery of a child who has been taken from the care of a person, taken or not returned after spending time with another person.

Changing a child's name
How to change a child's name after separation.

Grandparents and other family members

Children's Matters, Parenting Plans & Orders (PDF document 52 kb)

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