6 Dec 2021
SDW v SEB [2021] NZHC 3314
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 3314
- Court
- High Court
Although the judge found psychological domestic violence by the father, he correctly declined to make a protection order because the applicant had established a new life free of the father's control and did not have a reasonably held subjective fear of future violence; on COCA issues the judge correctly prioritized the child's welfare and best interests and found the mother's proposal for weekday primary care and local schooling in Pukekohe was the sustainable arrangement, the father's plan was unreliable because it depended on his mother's availability and unsustainable work patterns, and th…