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Child abduction – Brisbane mother’s plea for estranged husband to return their children to Australia

A Current Affair interviewed our own Brisbane family lawyer Deborah Awyzio on the legal issues surrounding the heart-wrenching story of the most recent child abduction case. Australian-born children Lahela, four, and Noah, two, have been taken by their father to Lebanon in what Deborah Awyzio says ‘amounts to child abduction’. But sadly for their Brisbane mother Sally …

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Queensland is the child abduction capital state

Australia has the highest rate of children being kidnapped by a parent in the world (per capita) with the majority of the abductions being from Queensland.  Getting a divorce is a difficult time for anyone; it’s made all the more difficult when children are part of that equation. So much change in someone’s life that …

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Increasing rates of separation between same-sex couples spark concern

  Many same-sex couples are deciding to part ways. This number is steadily growing year after year and opens multiple areas for concern, especially when children are involved.    When a same-sex relationship breaks down and is believed to be irreconcilable, many questions and concerns tend to float to the surface that may not have …

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