Sandler and Adams

The dispute in *Sandler and Adams* concerned parenting orders, specifically the nature and extent of contact between children and their father and paternal grandparents. The matter came before Cohen J in the Family Court of Australia.

The court was required to determine the appropriate arrangements for telephone and face-to-face contact between the children and their father and grandparents, as well as to address the issue of parental urine testing. The court also had to consider the mother's ability to monitor telephone conversations between the father and children and to restrain the grandparents from facilitating contact between the father and children outside of specific circumstances.

Cohen J made detailed orders regarding the children's contact arrangements. The grandparents were granted specific telephone contact on Wednesday evenings and overnight contact on the third Saturday of each month, with changeovers at a designated location. The father was granted telephone contact on Monday and Thursday evenings, with the mother permitted to listen to these calls via loudspeaker. The court also ordered that the grandparents were restrained from allowing the father to see the children unless immediately out of their presence. Finally, all previous orders concerning parental urine testing were discharged.