What is the test for assessing a child’s best interests from the perspective of the child rather than that of the parents?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Moussaoui v. Harkouken, 2021 ONSC 1986 (CanLII):
The court must ascertain a child’s best interests from the perspective of the child rather than that of the parents: Gordon v. Goertz, 1996 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27.
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