Barker and Barker and Anor

In *Barker and Barker and Anor*, heard by Hannam J, the applicant maternal grandmother sought sole parental responsibility and a residence order for the child, X. The precise nature of the dispute between the parties is not detailed in the provided text, but the orders indicate a contest concerning the child's upbringing and living arrangements.

The central legal issue before the court was to determine the best interests of the child, X, in circumstances where the maternal grandmother was seeking to be granted sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with her. This required the court to consider all relevant factors under the *Family Law Act 1975* (Cth) to ascertain what arrangement would best serve the child's welfare.

Hannam J ordered that the applicant maternal grandmother have sole parental responsibility for the child and that the child live with her. These orders reflect the court's determination that such arrangements were in the child's best interests, although the specific reasoning and the factors that led to this conclusion are not elaborated upon in the provided extract.