Jan 16, 2024
Disenchanted with adversarial processes that she felt weren’t
serving clients, Anne-Marie Cade sought and discovered a new
approach in parenting coordination. Speaking to Lawyers Weekly
following a Churchill Fellowship on the subject (which saw her
visit 16 global cities to explore such practices), she unpacks why
parenting coordination is so essential in family law matters in
Australia moving forward.
In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy
speaks with Ms Cade, an accredited mediator, lawyer, and parenting
coordinator, about how she got a Churchill Fellowhip, what
parenting coordination is and why she sees it as being so
important, her global research into the implementation of such an
approach in family law matters, what Australia can learn from
overseas examples, and the receptiveness of Australian
practitioners to parenting coordination.
Ms Cade also reflects on the need for such an approach in the
Australian market at present, what jurisdictions here should avoid
from global counterparts, her predictions for the uptake of
parenting coordination in Australia by year’s end, challenges she
foresees to its success and popularity as an approach, and what
excites her about her work in this space moving forward.