What is the test for having a custody order under the Children’s Law Reform Act?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex v S.A.R., 2015 ONSC 2534 (CanLII):

In Children’s Aid Society of Niagara Region v. B.(A.), 2007 CarswellOnt 9128 (S.C.J.), J.W. Scott J. considered a situation where there was an existing custody order under the Children’s Law Reform Act, where custody of the child had been awarded to the maternal grandparents and where one of the parents had generous and liberal access to the child and the other parent had supervised access to the child.

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