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  • 17 Jan 2014

    JMHK v. BRG

    Citation
    JMHK v. BRG
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC11427/2010

    The court ordered joint custody of the child with care and control vested in the mother because this outcome best protected the child's welfare while formally recognizing the father's custodial rights in light of international ramifications. Access was phased: unsupervised day access and limited unsupervised overnight staying access were granted subject to strict preconditions (presence of the father's wife during access; father's and wife's passports held by father's solicitor during access; father's undertaking not to apply for passport/identity documents for the child without mother's cons…