Can an adult child who has ceased to be a child of the marriage regain his lost status by pursuing further education?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from F.J.L. v. S.L.L., 2005 BCSC 1189 (CanLII):

Similarly, in Lawless v. Asaro, [2003] O.J. No. 2522 (S.C.J.), the court held at para. 12: In the event that a child has ceased to be a child of the marriage a question may arise whether the child can regain his or her lost status. Depending on the facts of a particular case and the circumstances of the situation, an adult child who has ceased to be a child of the marriage may regain that lost status by reason of the pursuit of further education. However, each fact situation must be analyzed carefully and the timelines between the time that the child has ceased to be a child of the marriage and the time when the request is being made to regain the lost status must be considered fully.

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