Oct 14, 2026 · 58 min · 19 segments
In this episode of *Daze in Court*, Foley's barrister Rohan Hoult is joined by List member Harriet Geddes and Natalie Scaramuzzo of marshalls+dent+wilmoth lawyers to discuss the role of family reports…
Rowan HoltHostHarriet GeddesGuestNatalie ScaramuzzoGuestunbelievably hard to settle in one of the types of cases where ordinarily you can't because the stakes are so high.
But to his credit, and my recollection is that the child had expressed pretty strong views.
And she sort of was spending, because of her age, she had been, I suppose, I don't want to say voting with her feet, but she'd been determining the time that she spent with him.
I wonder if there are parents out there that can't wait for their kids to go from one state to another.
Instead of, you know, sometimes people fight for their kids and you think, do you really know what you're doing?
Do
And I think with relocation cases, it's impossible to settle if someone's keen and it's just heartbreaking for everybody.
I've had a run though of relocations that I've either been involved in or my colleagues have told me about recently where it's been quite clear.
And obviously, you know, the hard thing about these sorts of cases is until you run it before a judge, you actually don't necessarily know what the outcome might be.
A family report writer might change their recommendations, but where for whatever reason, the writing's been on the wall that the relocation will probably be permitted.
And then rather than the trial has been looming in the background, but people have gone to either a mediation or some form of round table to try and work out the parameters of, you know, when is the traveling parent going or the relocating parent going and what will the time be? And that's actually as difficult as it is for the parent who's allowing the move.
unbelievably hard to settle in one of the types of cases where ordinarily you can't because the stakes are so high.
But to his credit, and my recollection is that the child had expressed pretty strong views.
And she sort of was spending, because of her age, she had been, I suppose, I don't want to say voting with her feet, but she'd been determining the time that she spent with him.
I wonder if there are parents out there that can't wait for their kids to go from one state to another.
Instead of, you know, sometimes people fight for their kids and you think, do you really know what you're doing?
Do
And I think with relocation cases, it's impossible to settle if someone's keen and it's just heartbreaking for everybody.
I've had a run though of relocations that I've either been involved in or my colleagues have told me about recently where it's been quite clear.
And obviously, you know, the hard thing about these sorts of cases is until you run it before a judge, you actually don't necessarily know what the outcome might be.
A family report writer might change their recommendations, but where for whatever reason, the writing's been on the wall that the relocation will probably be permitted.
And then rather than the trial has been looming in the background, but people have gone to either a mediation or some form of round table to try and work out the parameters of, you know, when is the traveling parent going or the relocating parent going and what will the time be? And that's actually as difficult as it is for the parent who's allowing the move.
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