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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19568
Record ID: c59c88c6-0014-49c7-8fc1-3c9e4f57caf7
Web resource: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2000/Z2000-May-10/www.familycourt.gov.au/papers/pdf/fla.pdf
Type: Report
Title: The Family Law Reform Act 1995 : can changing legislation change legal culture, legal practice and community expectations? Interim report, April 1999
Authors: Rhoades, Helen
Harrison, Margaret
Graycar, Reg
Keywords: Family law;Legal issues
Year: 1999
Publisher: Family Court of Australia
Notes:  An interim report describing the findings of a research project undertaken during 1997 and 1998 into the practical impacts of changes to the Family Law Act that came into operation in June 1996. The aim of the project is to assess the immediate and longer term effects of the changes over a three year period. The research involved interviews with Family Court judges and judicial registrars, family law solicitors and barristers; a survey of Family Court and other counsellors and mediators; observation of interim hearings; and analysis of a selection of pre-and post-reform act interim and final judgements and orders.
Contents:  Ch. 1: Introduction, background to the reforms and objectives of the research

Ch. 3: Research findings:- Practitioners' understanding, advice and practice
Are contact parents given the opportunity to spend more time with their children than access parents did before the Reform Act?
'Genuine' shared residence orders\s/\sarrangements
'Symbolic' residence\s/\sresidence orders v. residence and contact orders
Contact orders: amount of parent-child contact
Are 'non-resident' parents exercising more responsibility for their children than access parents did before the Reform Act?
Orders about day-to-day parental responsibility
Specific issues orders
Responsibility for children
Have litigated disputes between parents been reduced or increased as a result of the Reform Act?
Family violence and 'right to contact'
Relevance of a 'family violence order'\s/\suse of Division 11 and s68K 52
Contact applications where there are allegations of domestic violence
Relocation applications.
Ch. 2: Influences on the Australian reforms and early case law developments
URI: https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19568
Physical description: xi, 67 p. ; 30 cm.
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