SCOZZARI & SCOZZARI

This matter concerned an application by Ms R Scozzari for permission to travel overseas with her daughter, S, a young person. The proposed travel was for a holiday to Italy with a stopover in Singapore, scheduled to take place between approximately 17 June 2015 and 18 July 2015. The court was also required to consider arrangements for the care of Ms Scozzari's other children during her absence and a separate application concerning an alleged contravention by the mother.

The primary legal issue before the court was whether to grant Ms Scozzari permission to travel internationally with S. This involved assessing whether such travel was in the best interests of S and the other children. The court also had to determine the adequacy of the proposed care arrangements for the children remaining in Australia and consider the application for contravention.

His Honour Faulks DCJ determined that the proposed travel arrangements for S were satisfactory and in the best interests of the children. The court found the mother's proposed care arrangements for her other children during her absence to be satisfactory, noting that these arrangements would allow the children to continue seeing their father. The court permitted Ms Scozzari to travel with S as requested.

The court adjourned the remaining aspects of Ms Scozzari's application, including the application to amend existing consent orders and the contravention application, to 30 July 2015. The mother's costs of $1,000 were reserved until that date.