Director General, Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services and Martinez

In the Family Court of Australia, Justice Carew made orders concerning the return of a child, identified as X, to El Salvador. The parties involved were the Director General of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services, acting as the applicant, and Ms Martinez, the child's mother, as the respondent. The dispute centred on the child's welfare and location, culminating in orders for the child's repatriation.

The court was required to determine the appropriate orders to facilitate the child's return to El Salvador, including the timing of departure and arrival, and to ensure the mother did not obstruct this process. This involved considering measures to prevent the child's removal from Australia and to manage the child's and mother's presence on the Family Law Watchlist. The court also needed to address the potential for the mother's non-compliance and to make provision for the release of passports and other necessary documentation.

Justice Carew ordered that the child, X, be returned to El Salvador by 30 January 2017. To effect this, the mother was restrained from removing the child from Australia and from changing the child's usual place of residence. Both the child and the mother were to remain on the Family Law Watchlist until travel arrangements were confirmed, at which point they were to be removed. The court further ordered that if the mother refused to sign necessary documents for the child's removal from the watchlist, a Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the Family Court was appointed to sign them on her behalf. All other outstanding applications were dismissed, with liberty to apply granted to either party regarding the implementation of these orders.