By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson -
Key decisions
- Sacco & Allan (No 2) [2024] FedCFamC1A 139
- Cizek & Mihov [2024] FedCFamC1A 151
- Rasheem & Rasheem [2024] FedCFamC1F 595
- Min & Orton (No 3) [2024] FedCFamC1F 387
CHILDREN
Court erred in finding father did not pose an unacceptable risk at ‘a discrete hearing as to risk’
In Sacco & Allan (No 2) [2024] FedCFamC1A 139 (20 August 2024), the Full Court (Aldridge, Altobelli & Schonell JJ) allowed a mother’s appeal from orders made by Baumann J in respect of the parties’ nine-year-old daughter.
The parents entered into final consent orders in 2018 that the parties have equal shared parental responsibility, the child live with the mother and time with the father incrementally increase to overnight, unsupervised time. In October 2020, the child disclosed to her mother that she had been inappropriately touched by her father. Since then, the mother did not facilitate time with the father.