Published 10 August 2021
Final parenting order — application for amendment — provisions for international travel — COVID-19 — global pandemic — coronavirus — vaccine — Care of Children Act 2004. The parties were in dispute about the final parenting order in relation to their child. The applicant mother wanted the order amended to allow her to take their child overseas to visit her family, for periods of longer than 10 days (the maximum time the child was in her alternating care over the summer holidays). The Judge acknowledged that, given the current global pandemic rendering international travel extremely difficult, this application was an academic exercise, noting that international travel further than Australia or the Pacific Islands would likely not be possible until a reliable vaccine for the coronavirus was available. Nevertheless, given that the proposed travel wouldn't happen until the end of 2021, it made sense to deal with the matter as it was currently before the Court. The Judge amended the parenting order to give the parties larger windows in which they had alternating care of their child, and made various other directions so as to allow either parent to travel with their child overseas. Judgment Date: 8 May 2020. * * * Note: names have been changed to comply with legal requirements. * * *
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