Conn and Conn

In the matter of *Conn and Conn*, heard before Judge Jones, the court considered parenting orders concerning four children: W, X, Y, and Z. The dispute centred on the living arrangements and parental responsibilities for these children, with the mother seeking specific orders regarding their care and the father's involvement.

The primary legal issues before the court were to determine the children's primary residence, the allocation of parental responsibility, the specific time the children would spend with the father, and to establish injunctions to protect the children from certain behaviours by the father. Additionally, the court was required to address the possession and use of the children's passports for both domestic and international travel, and to consider the terms under which each parent could take the children on holidays.

The court ordered that the children live with the mother and that she have sole parental responsibility. The father was granted specific time with the children, including alternative weekends and Tuesday evenings, with additional time during school holidays and on Christmas Day. Crucially, the father was restrained by injunction from acting provocatively or aggressively in the children's presence, discussing adult topics or denigrating the mother to the children, or discussing future parenting arrangements with them. The court also made detailed provisions regarding the children's passports, authorising the mother to obtain new passports for W, X, and Y without the father's consent, and requiring the father to return Z's passport to the court registry. Further orders governed interstate and overseas travel, requiring mutual consent, notice periods, and provisions for contact and make-up time. The Independent Children's Lawyer was discharged. The father was granted liberty to apply to have these orders set aside within 28 days.