What is the "best interests of the child" test?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from M.D. v. N.J., 2018 ONSC 3706 (CanLII):
The “best interests of the child” test is the only test. Parental preferences and “rights” play no role. See: Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3, at para. 202; and Gordon v. Goertz, 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27 at para. 28.
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