Hurst & Biggs [2012] FamCA 536 – 06/07/2012

CATCHWORDS:

FAMILY LAW – CHILDREN – whether the children should continue spending time with their father – where the father engages in alcohol misuse - where the father refuses to participate in a residential rehabilitation program – where it is held that the father should spend supervised time with the children for a limited time to enable him to participate in certain programs if he changes his mind and chooses to do so – where the father alleges the mother’s new partner poses an unacceptable risk to the children – where the Court accepts the undertakings from the mother and the mother’s new partner