What is the test to apply in cases where one parent wants to move to a new location with the child and the other parent opposes the move?

Yukon, Canada


The following excerpt is from C.M.S. v. M.R.J.S., 2009 YKSC 32 (CanLII):

The leading Canadian authority on the test to be applied in cases where one parent wants to move to a new location with a child and the other parent opposes the move is Gordon v. Goertz, 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27.

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