“A different way of thinking” - On parenting Coordination overseas and recently in Australia with Dr Astrid Martalas and Craig Schneider, South Africa. AFCC Series.

• What is parenting co-ordination?
• How long does parenting co-ordination last?
• High conflict matters and court resources.
• Powers of the Court not usurped by parenting coordination – judicial authority and parenting coordination?
• Role of parenting coordinator to assist, facilitate and empower the parties.
• Education by the parenting coordinator.
• Transforming the way parents relate to each other so ultimately, hopefully they can resolve their disputes directly.
• Parenting coordination as a logical extension of the mediation process in Australia.
• Parenting coordination is not therapy and is not legal advice, a new profession of the “parenting coordinator.”
• Training and qualifications to become a parenting coordinator.
• Domestic violence and parenting coordinator.
• Including an order in Consent Orders for parenting coordinator.
• Recommendations by the parenting coordinator can be used in Court proceedings.
• South African experience with parenting coordination and the use of PC clauses in consent orders and parenting plans and how it grew and developed organically.
• Research in Canada and America on the reduction of re-ligation.
• History of parenting coordination.
• Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, UK and Australian training.
• America, Canada and South Africa and the history of parenting co-ordination.
• Australian WA experiences of parenting coordination.
• Will there be resistance to parenting coordination in Australia? Recent judgment regarding several aspects of PC.
• Breaches of orders and contravention applications and how PC may reduce this.