Lenard & Rogers [2012] FamCA 600 – 20/07/2012

CATCHWORDS:

FAMILY LAW – PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Stay of proceedings – where the wife seeks a stay of proceedings pending her appeal regarding parenting orders that the children no longer live with the wife and instead live with the father – where the court has power to determine a stay when the appeal is not yet filed – where the stay would likely be for a long period of time – where the change from one parenting regime to the other is not so disruptive on the children so as to warrant granting a stay.