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Limbo in Lebanon: mother charged with kidnapping own children urged to accept custody deal

15th April 2016

Following a failed attempt to retrieve her two children from their father’s care in Beirut, Australian mother Sally Faulkner was detained by Lebanese police and charged with kidnapping. What was allegedly intended to be the dramatic denouement for a soapy 60 Minutes documentary has the potential to corrode Lebanese-Australian relations.... READ MORE

Unmarried mother fights for birth registration reform

13th April 2016

A mother, Joana Niemeyer, was unable to put her partner’s name on their second child’s birth certificate because they were unmarried when he died, three weeks before the birth. Now she’s campaigning to change the law on birth registration, to prevent other unwed parents from being stigmatised. Ms Niemeyer and David McNamara... READ MORE

Colombia is poised to legalise same-sex marriage

13th April 2016

Colombia’s highest court voted six to three against the notion that marriage is only for heterosexual couples. The proposed ruling, now overturned, also advocated for the congress to decide rather than the court. Magistrate Alberto Rojas said, “All human beings … have the fundamental right to be married with no... READ MORE

Fiction vs Family Law: Rob and Helen – when domestic abuse turns deadly

8th April 2016

Earlier this week The Archers concluded its two and a half year long story line exploring the insidious nature of emotional abuse within romantic relationships. Before Christmas I noted the long running BBC radio soap had picked up the topic of reproductive coercion, and what that would mean after new emotional abuse laws were introduced at the... READ MORE

Forced adoption case in Portugal is a breach of human rights

8th April 2016

The European Court of Human Rights unanimously held that a forced adoption process in Portugal was a breach of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights, and that courts and child protection organisations have a positive obligation to keep families together. The case of Soares de Melo... READ MORE

Contempt, committal, and children proceedings: appeal allowed in the case of child ‘L’

7th April 2016

Mrs Justice Theis has allowed an appeal from a committal order made on 18 January 2016 for a breach of a collection order made in 2004. In March 2004, a care and freeing order was made by Mr Justice Kirkwood regarding a 3-year-old girl (‘L’), who by December of that year had disappeared with her parents. A collection order was... READ MORE

Is blood thicker than water? The failure of special guardianship orders

6th April 2016

In 2005 the government amended the 1989 Children Act to add in provisions for the families of children whose parents were no longer able to care for them. Unlike fostering or adoption, this allowed the children to remain resident with members of their biological family as relatives could apply for a special guardianship order and, after an... READ MORE

Cross-border surrogacy and the trouble with triplings

6th April 2016

A gay couple from New Zealand have been struggling to bring home their ‘triplings’ from Mexico. Triplings are babies using the same sperm and egg donors, but born from different surrogates. The couple, David and Nicky Beard, found themselves “stranded” in Mexico after one of the babies developed medical complications costing NZ$118,132... READ MORE

Suspended sentence for woman who induced her own abortion in Northern Ireland

5th April 2016

A 21-year old woman has been found guilty and given a suspended custodial sentence in Northern Ireland today after pleading guilty for procuring her own abortion, using pills she purchased online. In Northern Ireland abortion is still a criminal offence under the Offence Against the Person Act 1861, with a potential sentence of anything up... READ MORE

Fiction vs Family Law: Finn and international child abduction

4th April 2016

Here is the last instalment of my Star Wars series for Fiction vs Family Law. The other two blogs in this series, which examine family law issues through the lenses of Kylo Ren and Rey, can be found here and here, but this time I’m going to take a look at the controversial third main character of The Force Awakens –Finn. The... READ MORE

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