Self Representation Presentation – Lone Fathers Association – Child Custody
LONE FATHERS ASSOCIATION of AUSTRALIA (LFAA), a national Peak Body, is a non-sexist, non-sectarian, non-profit, and self-help educational and welfare organisation devoted to the interests of lone fathers, their relatives, friends, extended family, grand parents, carers and children.
LFAA will provide a presentation of how to represent yourself in family court proceedings. The presentation is the latest 2012 version of their ‘Getting Started’ Presentation which has been shown to many groups over the years. Presentation duration is approximately 1.5 hours and there will be a Q & A session afterwards.
LFAA has been operating for 39 years with its head office in Canberra and branches through out Australia.
The increase in the number of male suicides related to family issues, the increase in the number of children who can not see their dad – primarily due to non enforcement orders, the call for assistance, advice and support from lone fathers in the Sydney area has now led to a Sydney branch being established.
Our vision is to assist and encourage parents who have, or desire to have, shared parenting status or care of their children to support and sustain their children in a happy and viable family unit, and to help parents without shared parenting status to maintain adequate, positive contact with their children.
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Free Legal Sessions to Empower Women
Jess didn’t have a plan when she left her violent partner in the middle of the night.
She grabbed their two-month-old son and a few belongings and drove to her parent’s house, unsure of what would happen tomorrow or what her next move should be.
‘‘Perhaps if I’d had that information earlier, before things reached a crisis point, perhaps I would have made the decision to leave earlier,’’ said Jess, whose name has been changed.
‘‘I was terrified. I was afraid that he would escalate the situation when I left.’’
Jess was aided by the police and the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre, which is hosting a series of legal information sessions to educate women considering leaving a difficult relationship.
Topics include victims compensation (tomorrow), family law and children (April 24), family law and property settlements (May 1) and domestic violence and Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders (May 8).
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Woman Sacked for Dirty Divorce Tactics
A WOMAN who used Australian Federal Police databases to dig up dirt on her former husband during a bitter divorce has lost a claim for unfair dismissal.
Fair Work Australia heard the woman, who worked as a financial analyst for the AFP, also tried to rope colleagues into her battle against her former husband but was sacked in April last year after he hired a private investigator and complained to police.
She was found to have breached the AFP code of conduct after getting a co-worker to send her records on her former husband’s businesses, which she described as ”gold” and forwarded on to her mother.
Police also found two sexually inappropriate photos on her work computer, including an image of ”two men’s buttocks” which she described as ”jovial”.
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Why women marry the wrong men
“Did you know you were making a mistake as you were walking down the aisle?” This was the question Jennifer Gauvain and Anne Milford asked 1000 women as research for their book How Not to Marry the Wrong Man.
A staggering 30 per cent of respondents said ‘yes’ they did know. But, they did it anyway.
Gauvain, a licensed clinical social worker, wrote about it in this blog for the Huffington Post. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given divorce rates in the US are around 40 per cent – versus about one third in Australia – it caused an uproar.
Of the thousand-odd comments on the article, some that captured the general mood included this:
“Marriage is for idots and poor people. Divorce is too easy for women. It’s not hard for a woman to navigate a divorce. The only thing she’s navigating is how much of this man’s hard earned money she’s going to take from him for the rest of his life.”
And this:
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Mum ‘organised murder of daughter’s boyfriend’
Editor: Another article highlighting the capacity for women, just like men, to murder.
A UK mother arranged for her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend to be murdered and then convinced the teenager to take the blame, a London court has heard.
Gedu Bibi, 47, is on trial for her part in the murder of Sumon Miah, 21, at her home in Walthamstow in October 2006.
Mrs Bibi allegedly recruited former lover Lilu Miah, 48, to kill the young man after he uploaded naked pictures of her daughter to the internet, according to the Daily Mail.
Sumon Miah was hit over the head with a chair leg, fracturing his skull and dying nine days later in hospital.
After the murder, Mrs Bibi allegedly convinced her daughter to tell police she had killed her boyfriend in self-defence, also allegedly persuading her then 12-year-old son to lie.
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Another Mum Not Guilty of Murdering Children
An Australian mother has been convicted in Canada of the manslaughter of her two young sons after their bodies were found floating in a bathtub.
An Alberta judge found Allyson McConnell, 33, formerly from Gosford on the NSW Central Coast, not guilty of the more serious second degree murder charges.
Justice Michelle Crichton ruled there was reasonable doubt McConnell was able to form the intent to murder 10-month-old Jayden and two-year-old Connor by drowning them in a bathtub in the family’s Millet, Alberta, home on February 1, 2010.
After an emotional two-week trial in Wetaskiwin, Justice Crichton took a month to come to Friday’s verdict.
McConnell, who has made repeated suicide attempts and has been held in the psychiatric ward at an Alberta hospital, will be sentenced on May 9.
In 2006, McConnell worked at a Canadian ski resort and met local man Curtis McConnell.
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Father pleads for return of stolen ashes
The stolen urn
A FATHER has issued a desperate plea to the community to assist him in tracking down the stolen ashes of his little girl.
Ralph Hooper was alerted to a break-in at his home in Ormeau, south of Brisbane, by his step-daughter at 3pm yesterday.
Rushing home, he was devastated to discover the ashes of his little girl Elizabeth June Hooper were missing from his bedside.
Elizabeth Hooper died from a brain tumour three years ago when she was five years old.
“I saw red, I felt so betrayed that someone would stoop so low,” he said.
“It cut me very deep and there was a feeling of numbness that I had lost all I had left of her.
“We are all very distraught.”
Mr Hooper said his great-grandmother’s engagement ring was also stolen in addition to other valuables around the house but the ashes were the one thing he wanted returned most.
“If they could just be returned to the house, the police, a local school, anything,” he said.
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Shock as Prosecutors Drop Rape Charge Against Rebecca Helen Elder
PROSECUTORS have surprisingly dropped all charges against a woman accused of orally raping a man.
Rebecca Helen Elder, 39, of Parkside, appeared in the District Court today.
She had previously pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated serious criminal trespass in a place of residence, and one count of rape.
Prosecution documents, filed with the court, alleged both offences took place at a suburban house between September 20 and September 23 last year.
They claimed Ms Elder broke into a house while its male occupant was lawfully on the premises.
They further alleged she broke in with the intention of committing a further offence of rape.
Ms Elder was last month ordered to stand trial, during which prosecutors would allege she raped the man by performing an act of oral sex on him without his consent.
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Youth To Pay For Sexual Contradictions
I have just had the privilege of taking my 9 year old son and 7 year old nephew to a carnival in Sydney, Australia.
The boys are on Easter holiday break and always look forward to their annual visit to the Easter show, and going together, given their proximity in age, makes this enjoyable event all the more special for them.
With all the rides, show bags, walking and carrying, along with the sometimes chaotic behaviour of excitable boys, I am typically ‘spent’ by the end of the day, although with a quiet sense of satisfaction that I have been able to give the boys another positive little memory, hopefully one more small piece in a happy and fulfilling childhood.
However this evening I did not feel this typical sense of satisfaction, in large measure I suspect because of what I and the boys were so noticeably confronted with as we mingled with the tens of thousands of other Australians while at the carnival.
To my utter despair, on a very cold autumn day in Sydney which required winter clothing for me and the boys, one of the earliest sites we saw while waiting in the queue for our tickets was countless young girls, aged between eight years up to their mid-teens, with skimpy-sized, ‘Daisy Duke’ cut-off jeans, not only exposing the length of their legs, but their buttocks too…
written by Ash Patil
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A Men’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service
Mario Licha ( Barrister at Law) is setting up a new AVO advice service for Australian men.
Mario Licha is a New South Wales Barrister who practises out of Ada Evans Chambers in Sydney, New South Wales. This Sydney Barrister practises in the areas of Criminal and Family Law.
Mario brings a different perspective to the bar having worked as a Registered Nurse for 16 years in which 5 years were spent working at Long Bay Gaol. Â Mario uses his knowledge and experience in dealing with clients, opposing Counsel and the Bench.
On 17 April 2012 Mario Licha will be giving a FREE talk about AVOs.
Michael Michalak, Student-at-Law assistant will also be giving a small talk about how he became interested and involved law. Michael has prior experience as a self represented litigant in the Family Court.
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