20 May 2022
M v B [2022] NZHC 1126
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 1126
- Court
- High Court
The High Court set aside Family Court findings that V and L had been psychologically abused because the factual basis did not meet the legal threshold, but upheld that past parental conduct raised safety concerns; retained shared week-about care for V because risks were low and disruption would cause greater harm; granted L unsupervised daytime contact but limited overnight contact to supervised weekend stays at paternal grandfather's home pending appropriate transition measures and removed the psychiatric-diagnosis precondition while amending enforceable protective conditions tailored to pre…