Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 65G

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   a court proposes to make a parenting order that deals with whom a child is to live with; and

  (b)   under the order, the child would not live with a parent, grandparent or other relative of the child; and

  (c)   the court proposes to make that order with the consent of all the parties to the proceedings.

  (1A)   This section also applies if:

  (a)   a court proposes to make a parenting order that deals with the allocation of parental responsibility for a child; and

  (b)   under the order, no parent, grandparent or other relative of the child would be allocated parental responsibility for the child; and

  (c)   the court proposes to make that order with the consent of all the parties to the proceedings.

  (2)   The court must not make the proposed order unless:

  (a)   the parties to the proceedings have attended a conference with a family consultant to discuss the matter to be determined by the proposed order; or

  (b)   the court is satisfied that there are circumstances that make it appropriate to make the proposed order even though the conditions in paragraph   (a) are not satisfied.