Mother unilaterally went to Queensland for medical treatment – then stayed…

In Whiteside & Whiteside [2014] FCCA 893 (6 May 2014)

A mother relocated to Queensland with her children aged seven, six, two and eight months from NSW to Queensland for urgent medical treatment for herself. The parents had `co-parented’ for 12 months before her relocation. After her treatment the mother decided to live in Queensland. Judge Neville made an interim order that the children live with the mother in Queensland but that the two eldest children live with the father at the end of the school term.

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