Chappell and Reiner

In the matter of Chappell and Reiner, before Judge Harland, the dispute concerned parenting orders for a child born in 2007. The specific details of the dispute leading to the court's intervention are not elaborated upon in the provided text, but the outcome reflects a resolution of disagreements regarding the child's living arrangements, time spent with each parent, and related parental responsibilities.

The court was required to determine the most appropriate parenting arrangements for the child, including establishing equal shared parental responsibility, determining with whom the child would live, and specifying the time the child would spend with each parent. Additionally, the court addressed ancillary matters such as communication protocols, holiday arrangements, handover procedures, and prohibitions on substance use. The court also made orders concerning parental counselling, parenting support, and injunctions to prevent denigration of the other parent and discussion of proceedings in the child's presence.

Judge Harland ordered that all previous parenting orders be discharged. The court established equal shared parental responsibility for the child, with the child to live with the Father. Specific provisions were made for the child to spend time and communicate with the Mother, detailing arrangements for long weekends, nominated weekends during school holidays, a period during school holidays, Christmas holidays, Mother's Day, and regular telephone or video calls. The Father was also allocated time with the child on Father's Day. Further orders included specific handover locations, restraints on the consumption of illicit substances by either parent, requirements for the Father to seek parenting support, the Mother to undertake counselling, and both parties to attend a Parenting After Separation course. Crucially, injunctions were granted restraining both parties from abusing, insulting, belittling, rebuking, or denigrating the other parent, and from discussing the proceedings with or in the presence of the child. The orders also noted that particulars of obligations, consequences of contravention, and assistance details were set out in an attachment.