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You can apply to the court to change a ‘Parenting Order’ or an ‘Order to Settle Dispute Between Guardians’.
The options below may not be right for you because of your situation. You may need to apply for an urgent court order instead because:
If your court order is less than 2 years old, you must have a significant change in circumstances to apply to the court to change the order. For example, moving to another city.
To apply to change a court order you must be either:
If everyone named as a party in a ‘Parenting Order’ agrees, you can apply to a deputy registrar to change the ‘Parenting Order’ by consent. You don’t need a significant change in circumstances to do this. If a party to the ‘Parenting Order’ disagrees, you can apply to a judge to change your ‘Parenting Order’.
To apply to change an ‘Order to Settle a Dispute Between Guardians’, you must meet one of the following.
You can only apply to a judge to change an ‘Order to Settle a Dispute Between Guardians’.
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