CUSTODY AND ACCESS - Child's preference - Maximum contact principle

Law360 Canada ( August 27, 2019, 8:33 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the father from a decision dismissing his application for access to the parties’ 14 and 15-year-old children. The father did not have access with the parties’ four children since 2012. The parties agreed the father would have access to the two oldest children, 16 and 17-years-old, by writing to them by mail once per month and allowing the children to directly arrange access with him if they wished. A Voice of the Children Report indicated the younger children did not want to see the father. The application judge found the children’s wishes were entitled to considerable weight....
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