Saunders and Egerton

In the matter of *Saunders and Egerton*, heard before Judge McGuire, the dispute concerned parenting orders for a child, X. The parents sought to vary existing orders, with the mother applying to relocate X to South Australia and the father seeking to maintain the status quo or vary existing arrangements.

The court was required to determine whether to discharge existing parenting orders, whether to grant equal shared parental responsibility, and crucially, whether to permit the mother to relocate X to South Australia. The court also needed to consider arrangements for X's time with the father and potential holiday travel to South Australia.

Judge McGuire discharged all extant orders concerning X, establishing equal shared parental responsibility. The court ordered that X live with the mother in Tasmania and refused the mother's application to relocate X to South Australia. The court reserved for further submissions the matters of X's time with the father and the issue of the parents being permitted to travel to South Australia for holidays.