Thompson and Booker

In the matter of *Thompson and Booker*, heard before Gill J, the dispute concerned parenting arrangements for a child, Y, born in 2012. The court was tasked with determining the orders regarding Y's residence, parental responsibility, and time spent with each parent.

The central legal issues before the court were to establish where Y would live, who would hold parental responsibility for Y, and the nature and extent of Y's contact with her father. The court also had to consider the practical arrangements for facilitating this contact, including supervision, costs, and communication methods.

Gill J made orders that Y would live with the Mother and that the Mother would have sole parental responsibility. The Father was to be provided with Y's school and treating practitioner contact details, with authority for information to be shared. Y was to spend time with her Father for two periods of up to four hours per day, across up to three days once every six weeks, on a supervised basis at the H Contact Centre. The Father was to be solely responsible for the costs of the contact centre and was required to provide three weeks' written notice of nominated dates. Electronic contact was ordered for Y with her Father each Friday evening, with provisions for alternative contact on the following Saturday if the Father was unable to initiate contact due to his work roster, provided 48 hours' written notice was given. The parties retained liberty to vary supervised time arrangements by written agreement.