BONNEY & BOONE

The Family Court of Australia considered a dispute concerning the future parenting arrangements for a ten-year-old child. The child was residing with the father and had no contact with the mother. The central issue was whether the mother posed an unacceptable risk of emotional or psychological harm to the child.

The court was required to determine whether the mother presented an unacceptable risk to the child and, consequently, what parenting orders were in the child's best interests. This involved assessing the potential impact of the mother's conduct on the child's emotional and psychological well-being.

Justice L. Turner found that the mother did pose an unacceptable risk to the child. Accordingly, the court ordered that the child live with the father and that the father have sole parental responsibility. The child was to spend supervised time with the mother, with the condition that if the mother failed to complete an intake process or spend consecutive time with the child, this supervised time would cease.