Visitation is a word for a guest, the Karnataka High Court has said while directing courts to use parenting time instead of visitation in child custody cases, since no parent is a visitor in a child’s life. Bengaluru: Courts should speak of parenting time, not visitation, in child custody cases, the Karnataka High Court has […]
A father’s financial strength was not enough for the Rajasthan High Court. It has ordered phased custody for the father instead, holding that a sudden separation from grandparents may disturb a seven-year-old who has lived with them since birth. Jodhpur: Instead of handing over a seven-year-old boy to his father at once, the Rajasthan High […]
The Bombay High Court declined to hand interim custody of a girl to her biological parents from a neighbour couple who had raised her since infancy, holding that the welfare of the child, not the rights of the rival claimants, is paramount, and that uprooting a settled ten-year-old from the only home she has known […]
The Bombay High Court set aside a Family Court order that had handed a child’s custody to the father after sermonising on the “pious duties of a wife,” holding the reasoning “regressive,” rooted in “stereotypical and erroneous notions” of marriage, and irrelevant to the only question that mattered: the welfare of the child. Mumbai: The […]
