Can a child change his wish to move from one parent to the other parent?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Feist v. Feist, 2007 SKQB 376 (CanLII):
In the Beutler v. Maki case, the court found that the child truly had changed his wish from the time that the order had been made some five years previous. The court found that this was a fresh desire to change residence from one parent to the other. As Dickson J. stated at para. 27:
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