Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 205L

205L .         Order compensating person for time lost — FLA s. 70NDB

        (1)         If —

            (a)         the primary order is a parenting order in relation to a child; and

            (b)         the current contravention resulted in a person not spending time with the child (or the child not living with a person for a particular period),

                a court —

            (c)         may make a further parenting order that compensates the person for time the person did not spend with the child (or the time the child did not live with the person) as a result of the current contravention; and

            (d)         must consider making that kind of order.

        (2)         A court must not make an order under subsection (1)(c) if it would not be in the best interests of the child for the court to do so.

        [Section 205L inserted: No. 35 of 2006 s. 101.]