Is a woman’s paramour not a “parent” within the meaning of the word “custody charge or care”?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. McReynolds, 1936 CanLII 132 (SK QB):
So also in Ottley v. Fenn, 109 L.T. 175, in dealing with the meaning of the words ‘custody charge or care,” in the Act of 1894 it was held that a woman’s paramour is not (as a cohabiting husband is) ipso facto within the phrase because he is not its “parent.”
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