What is the current state of the law on custody and access?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from J.L.G. v. D.W.M., 2002 BCSC 1727 (CanLII):
Custody and access are more properly regarded as the right of the child, not the right of the parent. The child is not a chattel in which its parents have a proprietary interest; it is a human being to whom they owe serious obligations. See, for example, para. 59 of Young v. Young, supra, and the cases referred to in that paragraph.
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