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These are Parenting Orders, claimed by a father in his application to the Family Court of Australia, concerning two school-age children. The father proposes that the children live in a 'shared parenting arrangement' with each parent for alternate weeks, from Friday afternoon to the following Friday afternoon. Alternatively, if the Court decides that the children shall normally live with their mother, the Father proposes that the children have a regular routine of time with him, including every second weekend; half of school holidays; and on other special days.

These orders are for extreme cases only, where the mother has evidence that the father intends to take the child out of Australia without the mother's permission.
At the outset of proceedings in the Family Court of Australia, the mother seeks urgent interim orders, made ex parte (without prior notice to the father):
- to stop the father taking the child out of Australia;
- to notify passport control that the child should not leave Australia;
- to direct police to return the child to the mother to live with the mother until further order;