Raines and Grant

In the matter of Raines and Grant, Hannam J made orders concerning the living arrangements and time spent with a child, B, born in 2006. The dispute involved the parents' respective roles and responsibilities regarding their child.

The court was required to determine the primary residence of the child, the nature of parental responsibility, and the specific arrangements for the father's time with the child, including the level of supervision and the involvement of third parties. Further issues included the facilitation of contact, the engagement of therapeutic services for the child, and the apportionment of associated costs.

Hannam J ordered that the child, B, shall live with the Mother and that both parents shall have equal shared parental responsibility. The father's time with the child was to commence with supervised contact at designated contact centres, with both parents sharing the costs. Following a three-month period of supervised contact, the father's time was to transition to supervised time every alternate Sunday, with the paternal grandparents, Ms F and Mr G Raines, undertaking to supervise this time and provide undertakings to the court. The mother was also directed to arrange for the child to engage with a psychologist, Ms H, for therapeutic counselling, and both parents were to share the costs of this counselling not covered by Medicare.