What is the test for determining whether a mother's change in circumstance is in the child's best interest?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stimpson v Stimpson, 2016 ONSC 5066 (CanLII):
The following issues must be decided: 1. Has the mother demonstrated a material change in circumstance? and 2. Which of the parties parenting plan is in the child’s best interest, considering the factors set out in Gordon v. Goertz, 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 SCR 27 (SCC)?
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