LAW 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frot, Tender Years Doctrine, Shared Decision-Making In Medicine
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Lecture 2 on family law with prof bala. Last week on polygamy, this week on parenting, separation and divorce. Context and concepts: custody and access, used in ontario and canada (bala finds them problematic), share parenting is used in other countries (bala thinks this should be used in. Canada: custody= the parent with custody has the right to make decisions about the child, this includes making decisions about medical treatments, education decisions, extra curricular activities, and social activities. Pare(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:271)est i(cid:374)terests of the (cid:272)hild(cid:863) Access arrangements: time that the parent who does not have custody gets to spend with the child, some separated parents bad mouth the others to their children which leads to alienating behavior. Acess enforcement and alienation: children can be influenced by parents and can lead to children not wanting to see a parent.