What is the test for assessing a child's best interests?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Marshall v. Snow et al., 2022 ONSC 1687 (CanLII):
As I wrote in Phillips v. Phillips, 2021 ONSC 2480, at para. 47: "The list of best interests factors is not a checklist to be tabulated with the highest score winning. Rather it calls for the court to take a holistic look at the child, her needs and the people around her."
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