What is the test for assessing a child’s best interests rather than that of the parents?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Grenier v. Imbeault, 2018 ONSC 6467 (CanLII):
The court must ascertain a child’s best interests from the perspective of the child rather than that of the parents. Further, the only consideration is the best interest of the children in any custody decision (Gordon v. Goertz 1996 CanLII 191(SCC)).
No one factor in the statutory definition of a child’s best interests is given statutory preeminence (Wilson v. Wilson 2015 ONSC 479 (CanLII)). Analysis on custody
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