Teenager wins court bid to spend more time with his half-brother A YOUNG man has won a court bid to spend more time with his little half-brother. The Family Court was told that the younger boy's father cut off contact between the pair in 2010. The brothers, along with a half-sister, had started spending time together again after the legal bid was launched. But the youth, 19, wanted them to spend more time together and have sleepovers. A family report noted that the three siblings, who all have different fathers, enjoyed each other's company. "The thinking and motives by (the teenager) appear sound and would appear to be in the best interests of all three children," the report said. Given the quite traumatic past events involving the mother's mental health and substance abuse, and the fragmented and difficult events that the children have encountered during the course of their mother's life history, it is vital for all three children in this matter to have some semblance and sense of family and unity in their lives. The report stated that the teen was a reasonable and settled young man who had perfectly sound reasons for wanting to continue spending time with his siblings. But the sticking point in the case was a dispute between the fathers of the two brothers. "They are both involved in what would seem to amount to a feud and seem bent on using this arena to assert their version of past issues and events to show the other in a negative light," the family report said. Justice Burchardt said the younger boy's father had conceded that the brothers should spend more time together but he detested the other father "with an intensity bordering on mania." He ordered the boys be able to spend six hours together once a month, with overnight time from mid-2014.