The Australian Federal Police maintains the Family Law Watchlist for family law matters. It identifies whether children are leaving Australia, and your child may appear on the Watchlist in circumstances where the Court has issued a parenting order limiting or preventing the child's overseas travel, issued an injunction limiting or preventing the child's overseas travel, the child is the subject of a parenting order application currently before the Court that may limit or prevent overseas travel, the child is the subject of an application for an order to place the child on the Family Law Watchlist or the child is the subject of a parenting order or injunction under appeal.
To place a child on the Family Law Watchlist, you must complete an AFP Family Law Watchlist Request Form. In addition, you will need to have:
•a Court Order made under s34 or s68B of the Family Law Act 1975 or a parenting order that limits or prevents the child’s overseas travel and which also requests the AFP to place the child on the Family Law Watchlist; or;
•filed an application with the Court for a Court Order or a parenting order that limits or prevents the child’s overseas travel, and which also requests the AFP to place the child on the Family Law Watchlist; or;
•filed an appeal with the Court against an order of the Court relating to the child that limits or prevents the child’s overseas travel that had requested the AFP to place the child on the Family Law Watchlist.
If you wish to remove your child from the Family Law Watchlist it will depend on how the child was first placed on the Watchlist. If the child is placed on Watchlist pursuant to a court order you should provide a copy of the order removing the child to the AFP.