Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 85A

85A .         Parenting orders subject to later parenting plans — FLA s. 64D

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), a parenting order in relation to a child is taken to include a provision that the order is subject to a parenting plan that is —

            (a)         entered into subsequently by the child’s parents; and

            (b)         agreed to, in writing, by any other person (other than the child) to whom the parenting order applies.

        (2)         The court may, in exceptional circumstances, include in a parenting order a provision that the parenting order, or a specified provision of the parenting order, may only be varied by a subsequent order of the court (and not by a parenting plan).

        (3)         Without limiting subsection (2), exceptional circumstances for the purposes of that subsection include the following —

            (a)         circumstances that give rise to a need to protect the child from physical or psychological harm from being subjected to, or exposed to, abuse, neglect or family violence;

            (b)         the existence of substantial evidence that one of the child’s parents is likely to seek to use coercion or duress to gain the agreement of the other parent to a parenting plan.

        [Section 85A inserted by No. 35 of 2006 s. 91.]