What are the factors that allowed a father to obtain joint custody?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hamilton v. Hamilton, 2001 BCSC 896 (CanLII):
Although the court dismissed the father’s appeal alleging that the trial judge had not properly followed the rationale in Stewart v. Stewart, supra, the decision does not deal with the factors found by the trial judge that enabled him or her to make the order for joint custody.
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