Category: custody battles

Another Feminist Victory: Back to Winner-Takes-All Custody Battles

Commentary Last week, a television crew from the Japanese public broadcaster came to Sydney to interview family law specialist Justin Dowd, former president of the New South Wales (NSW) Law Society. Japan is considering moving away from mum-custody towards “joint parental authority”,—which recognizes that it’s in the children’s best interests to have both mum and…


Custody Fight Over Child, 6, Who Survived Italy Cable Crash

ROME—A six-year-old boy who was the sole survivor of a cable car crash this year in northern Italy is at the center of a bitter custody battle between his maternal grandparents in Israel and his paternal relatives in Italy, who claim the child was flown without their permission to Israel over the weekend. Fourteen people,…