WINTON & DAWSON

In the matter of *Winton & Dawson*, Hannam J of the Family Court of Australia considered an application concerning the parental responsibility and living arrangements for a child. The dispute involved the child's paternal grandmother, the Applicant, and the child's maternal grandmother, the Respondent.

The central legal issues before the Court were whether to discharge previous orders concerning the child, who should have sole parental responsibility for the child, where the child should live, and whether the child should spend any time with the paternal grandmother. The Court also had to determine the fate of all outstanding applications and cross-applications relating to the child.

Hannam J discharged all previous orders regarding the child. The Court reasoned that it was in the child's best interests for the maternal grandmother to have sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with her. Consequently, the Court ordered that the child spend no time with the paternal grandmother and dismissed all outstanding applications and cross-applications concerning the child.