What is the standard of review for a child custody appeal?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Boryskiewich v. Stuart, 2014 MBCA 77 (CanLII):
The standard of review with respect to child custody appeals is that an appellate court should not disturb the trial judgment in the absence of a material error, a serious misapprehension of the evidence or an error of law (see Van de Perre v. Edwards, 2001 SCC 60, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 1014).
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