What is the role of the court in a child rearing matter?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Y.N. v. D. M., 2011 NSSC 81 (CanLII):
In Gordon v. Goertz, 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27 we are reminded as judges that the court has a limited capacity to manage the day-to-day child rearing decisions or indeed the efficacy of maintaining a watching brief on a family's day-to-day living.
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