DCC 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Child Support, Physical Abuse

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Droit (Certificat)
• Course: DCC 3103
• Professor: Simard

Document Summary

Do not confuse with legal tutorship of minors. : rights and duties of custody, supervision, and education. Duty to maintain: may be dismembered, sec. : joint exercise, but a parent may act alone (see sec. : may be delegated, but cannot renounce : matter of public order. Criteria : grave motive and interest of the child: sec. Where such a measure is not required by the situation but action is nevertheless necessary, the court may declare, instead, the withdrawal of an attribute of parental authority or of its exercise. A direct application for withdrawal may also be made to the court: grave reasons: physical abuse, neglect (abandonment of child), custodial sentence is. Not a grave reason to take away parental authority, but custody could be given to someone else. It has to be in the interest of the child to take away parental authority: depravation does not need to be complete.