Spending time with your children
In most cases, children benefit from both parents and other family members being
involved in their lives.
If you can’t agree about care arrangements for your children, family dispute resolution
may help you and the other parent reach an agreement.
Family Relationship Centres offer family dispute resolution services
and support. You can also call the Family Relationship Advice Line
for information, or check out our Community
Services Directory for a service provider near you.
If you still disagree, you can seek legal advice or apply to the Family Courts.
Children’s Contact Service provides a safe, reliable and
neutral place where a parent can hand their children over to the other parent for
visits, or where a visiting parent (and other family members) can spend time with
a child under supervision. Centre staff can help plan, negotiate and implement care
arrangements and facilitate changeover.
For more information and contact details for these services call 1800 050
321 or go to Family Relationships
Online.
Help and information
about making care arrangements is available on our website.