What is the principle of maximum contact with both the mother and the father?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Philips v. Khalid, 2019 ONCJ 602 (CanLII):
The principle of maximum contact is about the importance of the children maximizing their contact with both the mother and the father. This principle may be the single most important consideration which arises from the decision in Gordon v. Goertz.[16]
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