What is the impact of a child’s change of residence on access to the child?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Puszczak v. Puszczak, 2003 ABQB 339 (CanLII):
As the court also clearly re-affirmed, the most important issue is always the best interests of the child which is to be determined by reference to the impact of the proposed change on him. We must, therefore, in the words of the Gordon v. Goertz decision “assess the impact of the child’s change of residence on the prior custody determination as well as the appropriate modification to access as the case may be.”
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