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Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005

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On Thursday 18 August 2005, the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs tabled its report entitled Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 8 chapters, 1 dissent, 1 statement and 5 appendices.

Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005

Preliminary pages (PDF 156KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations and List of Recommendations

Chapter 1 (PDF 76KB)
Introduction

Chapter 2 (PDF 348KB)
Facilitating shared parenting

Chapter 3 (PDF 356KB)
Resolution outside the legal system

Chapter 4 (PDF 196KB)
Less adversarial court processes for parenting matters

Chapter 5 (PDF 208KB)
Compliance regime

Chapter 6 (PDF 184KB)
Other issues

Chapter 7 (PDF 111KB)
Drafting issues

Chapter 8 (PDF 172KB)
Wider issues

Dissenting report (PDF 113KB)
With respect to the Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005
Ms Nicola Roxon MP, Member for Gellibrand

Statement (PDF 52KB)
With respect to the Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005
Hon Duncan Kerr SC MP, Member for Denison; Hon Roger Price MP, Member for Chifley and Mr John Murphy MP, Member for Lowe

Appendix A (PDF 70KB)
List of submissions

Appendix B (PDF 63KB)
Public hearings

Appendix C (PDF 70KB)
List of exhibits

Appendix D (PDF 38KB)
List of correspondence

Appendix E (PDF 178KB)
Government response to the FCAC report and provisions of the bill

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