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Name: Miranda Morgan on Feb 5, 2003Country: AUComments: I strongly support the call to review The Family Law Act so that we have a better and fairer system to the interest of our children.Flag
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Name: Varouj Tarpinian on Feb 5, 2003Country: AUComments: Of course I support this unjust act. Hope one day I can see a fare child support system.Flag
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Name: Senator Len Harris on Feb 6, 2003Country: AUComments: Joint Custody should be the automatic outcome of seperation unles one partner has been proven in a court of law not to be suitable.Flag
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Name: Peter Dehaan on Feb 6, 2003Country: AUComments: making one parent responsible, is most devestating to the non custodial parentFlag
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Name: Brett Mckinley on Feb 6, 2003Country: AUComments: I would like to go one step further to say I firmly believe our welfare system has a negative affect on our family structures. ie incourages the walk out option. Thanks and with the horrendous rate of single parent families in this country the petition can only do good.Flag
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Name: Brett Kessner on Feb 7, 2003Country: AUComments: I offer my support to this petition. Children need the love of both parents.Flag
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Name: Elainor Wade on Feb 8, 2003Country: AUComments: Children will most certainly benefit from both parents love and equal input into their lives - how can they notFlag
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Name: Richard Wynn on Feb 9, 2003Country: AUComments: Our children are the real victims of parental separation ... so I support the principles of shared care outlined in this petition.Flag
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Name: Luke Chisholm on Feb 9, 2003Country: AUComments: i agree, a father of a child that I have to fight for each time a try to see her...Flag
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Name: Geoff MacFarlane on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: Too much pain has been caused in the past, please do something to make it a better futere for all.Flag
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Name: Troy Walker on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: Do something now for the sake of our children - who are the future of this country.Flag
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Name: John Salamon on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: I havnt seen my two boys for five years as i refuse to bow to emotion and financial extortion from my ex. She demands that i pay her extra abive the normal child maintenance in order for me to see my own children, and the federal government allows this child abuse to take place.Flag
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Name: Wayne Butler on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: Reform is abysmally slow There needs to be immediate action on the part of Government to overhaul a presumption of joint parenting on seperation at the VERY least. There are many other reforms required including allowing Registrars to make Interim orders.Flag
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Name: Ross Perry on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: A parent who wishes to desert the other should not be able to take the children unless she(she in 80% of cases) can the deserted parent is at fault. In an "easy walkout" divorce system that is where justice should start not "equal time".Flag
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Name: Bruce Gascoigne on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: I agree that the family law act is highly flawed. Like all acts of law it relies on the parties behaving within a set of social norms. The act is based around this paradigm. When one or other parties behaves outside these norms for whatever reason then the act and the court have little or no ability to correct the situation. In some cases I suspect due to the work load and the onerous tasks it is asked to perform the family court and its officers just do not care to understand or work to adjust the situation. I am a father of three children 2 older than 18 live with me. They are free to see there mother and she can call them and see them anytime. I also have an 11 year old living with his mother. I have had to go to the family court to get them to provide me with interim orders for visitation and for other contact by phone. The latter is always an issue and I have spent more hours speaking to an answering machine knowing that my messages are never given to my child than I care to think. Transition times are always an issue and the verbal abuse and general poor demeanour of the childs mother is appalling. What can the courts do to rectify this. Nothing. I have applied for shared care and even had a family report done. Again I believe this to be a flawed system operating on the same paradigms as I mentioned above. There is seems to be a belief that a mother is the best one to look after the children. In my case 2 of my children voluntarily moved away from their mother to live with me. None of this was taken into account by the court appointed phsychologist or the court in handing down their interim decisions. I even have a situation where the ex-wifes parents are party to the behaviour and even go to the extent of trying to stop incidental contact between me and my son if we come across each other in the supermarket. It is poor behaviour not in the childs interests and is I beieve already having an effect on his approach to life. It is ridiculous the amount of money that needs be spent on the court process in order for me to have gained the little contact that I have. I have no doubt that money is the driving aspect of the other parties actions. The CSA scheme and its basis and the fact that property settlement is yet to be secured are all part of the reason for the behaviour. The Act needs ammendment particularly in cases where the other parent wants a clear and proper involvement in the childs upbringing. I have become to hate the words "custodial parent" I hear them so often. It appears that this gives the mother rights that I no longer have. I would welcome changes to the act that force mediation as a first option and penalise the party that failed to properly mediate. Please use my name and if necessary I will provide further testimony to what I believe is a totally flawed system. Bruce GascoigneFlag
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Name: Peter Bax on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: As someone who has been divorced and sometimes had problems with access to my 2 children I fully support this petition.Flag
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Name: David Murray on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: It's about time these laws were reformed.Flag
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Name: Hugo Antezana on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: This petition must be acted on as a matter of urgency.Flag
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Name: Alexander Peniazev on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: The Family Court [Registrar Henderson] recently made an interim orders to reduce existing children-father contact/residence from 104 to 78 nights a year. The mother is obcessed with idea to remove father away from lives of 9 and 10 year old daughters. She enrolled one girl to school 160km away from father and 80km from her residence. Other girl stays at local school. The court supported mother and made anti-father, anti-shared parenting decision. The childern are exposed to PAS by mother and are prepared unknowlingly to part with father altogether. The Family Court demonsrated again injustice to the children and to the father. I am appauled by such activities of FCA.Flag
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Name: Alexander Peniazev on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: The Family Court [Registrar Henderson] recently made an interim orders to reduce existing children-father contact/residence from 104 to 78 nights a year. The mother is obcessed with idea to remove father away from lives of 9 and 10 year old daughters. She enrolled one girl to school 160km away from father and 80km from her residence. Other girl stays at local school. The court supported mother and made anti-father, anti-shared parenting decision. The childern are exposed to PAS by mother and are prepared unknowlingly to part with father altogether. The Family Court demonsrated again injustice to the children and to the father. I am appauled by such activities of FCA.Flag
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Name: Alexander Peniazev on Feb 10, 2003Country: AUComments: The Family Court [Registrar Henderson] recently made an interim orders to reduce existing children-father contact/residence from 104 to 78 nights a year. The mother is obcessed with idea to remove father away from lives of 9 and 10 year old daughters. She enrolled one girl to school 160km away from father and 80km from her residence. Other girl stays at local school. The court supported mother and made anti-father, anti-shared parenting decision. The childern are exposed to PAS by mother and are prepared unknowlingly to part with father altogether. The Family Court demonsrated again injustice to the children and to the father. I am appauled by such activities of FCA.Flag