QUAILL & SIMPSON

In the matter of *Quaill & Simpson*, Benjamin J of the Family Court of Australia considered an application by the father concerning his child, referred to as X. The proceedings involved a dispute over the child's schooling and a prior consent order that had been varied. The court also addressed an application by the father to review a child support determination made by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

The primary legal issues before the court were whether it had the power or jurisdiction to alter the father's current child support assessment in the absence of notice to the Child Support Agency, and whether to grant the father's application to change the child's school.

His Honour determined that the court lacked the power or jurisdiction to change the father's child support assessment without proper notice to the Child Support Agency, as required by relevant legislation. Regarding the child's schooling, the court dismissed the father's application to change the child's school for 2019 and beyond. The court also varied the previous consent order to grant the mother sole parental responsibility for the child and granted the mother leave to provide school and medical reports to healthcare professionals involved in the proceedings. The court further ordered that particulars of the obligations and consequences of contravening these orders be set out in an attached Fact Sheet.