What is the test for a parent to determine the child's best interests?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex v R.L.T., 2016 ONSC 741 (CanLII):
In Children's Aid Society of London and Middlesex v. A.K., [2008] O.J. No 5853 (Sup. Ct.) the following appears: 61 The enumeration of statutory considerations in s. 37(3) in determining a child's best interests subsumes the common sense proposition that children have to have a nurturing environment with consistent rules, structure, routine, expectations and supervision. From the evidence I heard, none of [the parental contenders] could come close to providing that.
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