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| Subject: Court gridlock leaves OZschwitz serfs waiting three years for child custody to be resolved Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:21 pm | |
| Parents locked in child custody disputes and couples going through acrimonious divorces will wait up to three years to have their cases finalised as "drastic underfunding" of the Federal Circuit Court and a mass exodus of retiring judges exacerbate already long waits.
Fairfax Media has learnt that 12 judges are set to retire over the next 12 months – almost a quarter of the circuit court's 65 judges. The circuit court works in tandem with the Family Court, dealing with more than 80,000 divorces and custody matters a year.
Lawyers who work daily in the circuit court's family division have warned that waiting times for a final hearing will balloon from two years to three if emergency funding recommended by KPMG is not forthcoming from government and departing judges are not immediately replaced.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/court-gridlock-leaves-families-waiting-three-years-for-child-custody-to-be-resolved-20141106-11i4di.html#ixzz3IKkID4eb |
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