HOLMEN & FARLEY

The parties in this matter were the father and the mother, who were involved in a dispute concerning parenting arrangements. The decision was made by Dessau J in a court exercising jurisdiction under the *Family Law Act 1975* (Cth).

The primary legal issue before the court was whether to grant the father's application, filed on 19 November 2009, and whether to impose a restraint on the father from filing further parenting applications without leave.

Dessau J dismissed the father's application and ordered that the father be restrained from filing or serving any further parenting application without first obtaining the leave of a court having jurisdiction under the *Family Law Act 1975*. The question of the mother's costs of this application was reserved for 14 days.