What is the test for relocation under the Divorce Act?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lundberg v. Lundberg, 2015 BCSC 1092 (CanLII):
The decision in Gordon v. Goertz, 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27, remains the seminal decision on relocation under the Divorce Act. There, the majority summarized the considerations on such an application as follows:
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