Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2017 [2018] AUSStaCSBSD 13 (7 February 2018)

• Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2017

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Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2017

Purpose	This bill seeks to amend the Family Law Act 1975 and Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999 to: • provide for courts to be prescribed in regulations as having the same family law parenting jurisdiction as that held by state and territory courts of summary jurisdiction; • clarify the appeal pathway from decisions of prescribed courts exercising authority; • prescribe a new property value under which state and territory courts of summary jurisdiction can hear contested property matters without both parties’ consent; • provide for judicial officers to deliver short form judgments in interim parenting proceedings; • remove the 21 day time limit on the revival, variation or suspension of family law orders by state and territory courts in family violence order proceedings; • provide that a breach of a family law injunction for personal protection is a criminal offence; • provide authority to the family law courts to dismiss applications which clearly have no merit; • allow judges the discretion to dispense with requirements to explain an order or injunction to a child; and • repeal a redundant provision
Portfolio	Attorney-General
Introduced	Senate on 6 December 2017

The committee has no comment on this bill.