What is the duty of a court to view all circumstances relevant to what is in the interest of the child?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Khan v. Kong, 2007 CanLII 61091 (ON SC):
The Court of Appeal in Moores v. Feldstein, supra, stated it thus at para 48: “[It] is the duty of the court to view all the circumstances relevant to what is in the interest of the child, including a consideration as to whether the evidence disclosed that the child would benefit from the tie of a child to its mother.”
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