Nagel and Clay

This matter concerned an application before Rees J in the Family Court of Australia regarding the living arrangements for three children, B, C, and D. The dispute centred on the orders to be made concerning where the children would reside.

The primary legal issue before the court was to determine the final parenting orders that would govern the children's living arrangements, specifically addressing the question of whether the children should live with the father or the mother.

Rees J made orders that the children would live with the father on specific days within a two-week cycle: each Wednesday from 8:00 am until Thursday at 6:00 pm, and in the first week of the cycle, on Sunday from 8:00 am until 6:00 pm. In the second week of the cycle, the children were to live with the father from Saturday at 8:00 am until Sunday at 6:00 pm. At all other times, the children were to live with the mother. These orders were made pending further order.