On March 4, 2016, the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia ruled that a polygamous marriage is illegal in Australia but a foreign marriage, which is potentially polygamous when it is entered into, will be recognised as a valid marriage in Australia.
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Kerr has acted as counsel in the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, Family Court of Australia, Supreme Court of Tasmania, District Court of New South Wales, Supreme Court of New South Wales, and the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea.
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His books include : Thailand : Deadly Destination, Terror in Australia : Workers'Paradise Lost, Chaos at the Crossroads : Family Law Reform in Australia, Hunting the Famous, The Twilight Soi and The Final Days of Alastair Nicholson : Chief Justice Family Court of Australia.
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In states and territories where same-sex stepparent adoptions are not allowed, the lesbian co-mother or gay co-father may apply to the Family Court of Australia for a parenting order, as other people significant to the care, welfare and development of the child.
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*As a result of his failure to receive Phase 1 treatment in time, and this judgment, Alex was obliged to undergo a double mastectomy in later adolescence and Alex's State guardian was obliged to again make application to the Family Court of Australia to obtain the court's authorisation.
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On 29 July 2015 a 68-year-old man was arrested by detectives at Campbelltown, New South Wales over the shooting murder of Opas, bomb death of Pearl Watson, wife of Judge Ray Watson, two other murders, shootings and bomb attacks from 1980 to 1985, all related to the Family Court of Australia.
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The "'Harry Gibbs Commonwealth Law Courts Building "'( often known simply as the "'Commonwealth Law Courts "') contains the Queensland registries of the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia; and the Brisbane registries of the Family Court of Australia, Federal Magistrates Court of Australia and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
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The mother appealed the decision to the Family Court of Australia, arguing, among other grounds, that Coker FM had erred by failing to consider " an arrangement whereby both parties and the child would return to live in the Sydney area ", by failing to consider the mother's financial situation living in Mount Isa, as well as her emotional and physical isolation in living there.
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Under Part VII, Division 6 of the " Family Law Act 1975 ", the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia have the power to make parenting orders in relation to a child, on the application of a parent ( or both parents ) of the child, a grandparent, the child itself, or " any other person concerned with the care, welfare or development of the child ".
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The key issue was whether the Victorian State Government Department having the responsibility for Alex's care and welfare or the Family Court of Australia should have responsibility for the authorisation of medical treatment involving the administration of hormonal therapies to assist Alex to have a body with secondary sexual characteristics most appropriate to his innate affirmed male sex and, in so doing, relieve him of the extreme suffering he was experiencing as a result of female pubertal development.
