Not exact matches
These comments were made in the course of Dr. Pritchard's submission to the
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund: Parliament of Australia, Inquiry
into the Consistency of the Native title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's International
Obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination (CERD), Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra 2000 (Herein the
Joint Parliamentary Committee CERD Inquiry) Dr. Pritchard's comments were discussed in the Non-government Members Report at p117.
Significantly, it does not take
into account another side effect of
joint custody: the hardship faced by the parent who shoulders the bulk of the financial responsibility by virtue of de facto sole physical custody, with little contribution from the parent who fails to meet the
obligations ordered by the court.
Dr. Gardner notes that» [a] smoothly operating
joint custody arrangement may run
into trouble if one [or both] of the parents remarries,» especially with the new
obligations to the stepparent and possibly stepchildren.