Family Law – choosing and changing schools, who makes the decisions?
In Family Law, unless a Court Order has ruled otherwise, it is presumed that each parent has ‘equal shared parental responsibility’ with regard to major long term decisions involving a child.
So what is equal shared parental responsibility?
The presumption was created as a result of amendments to the Family Law Act (Cth) which encourages co-operative parenting by giving parents an equal say in the major decisions involving a child. Parental responsibility applies to each parent of a child regardless of whether the child’s parents are in a relationship or not.
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