Check for family law proceedings and orders and plan around the care orders
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the client’s documents, the department’s record and any family law court material on file, list every existing or pending parenting order or proceeding, its parties, date and terms, and set it against the current care orders and the department’s stated position, flagging where a family law order would be made for a child under a child welfare order.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer decides whether a family law order can be sought or relied on, whether it must be expressed to take effect when the child leaves care or needs the written consent of the child welfare officer, and how to sequence the two sets of proceedings, and advises the client. Safety concerns recorded in either court’s file are checked before any family law step is proposed.
- Written for / version
- US
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the client’s documents, the department’s record and any family law court material on file, list every existing or pending parenting order or proceeding, its parties, date and terms, and set it against the current care orders and the department’s stated position, flagging where a family law order would be made for a child under a child welfare order. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Before anything is relied on, confirm the material may lawfully go into the tool at all (approved tool, no retention or training), that no reporter identity or protected address has been exposed, and that the child cannot be identified from the output.
- Read s 69ZK against the actual care orders: is the child under the care of a person under a child welfare law, and does an exception apply?
- Check each order on the list against a sealed copy, not a description in the record.
- Confirm the client’s instructions on the family law step before anything is proposed to another party.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checklist: family law orders while a child is under a care order (Family Law Act s 69ZK) | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Checklist for a parenting matter where a child is, or may be, under care under a child welfare law: the limits in section 69ZK and what must be on the file before a family law order is sought. |
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Sources
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.