Papers to note: Family Law Council’s Report on Parentage and the Family Law Act

15/08/2014

The Family Law Council has released its Report on Parentage and the Family Law Act. According to the Attorney General's Department web site, this report "provides advice to the attorney-general on a range of issues in relation to who is considered to be a parent under the Family Law Act 1975. The council considered the changes in family structures and the differing ways families are now being formed, the role and meaning of 'parent', as well as the inconsistent, inappropriate and discriminatory outcomes for children on the basis of the status of the people who are raising them or the way in which the child's family was formed." The report contains 19 recommendations. Learn more here.