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The Family Court made interim guardianship orders for a young child, granting the mother sole care and control, preserving the father’s access, and setting holiday and travel rules.
The High Court allowed a father’s appeal, set aside orders permitting the mother to relocate three children to Indonesia, and held the children should remain in Singapore.
The court refused a wife's relocation application concerning two children in Malaysia, but also declined to order their immediate return to Singapore pending ancillary matters.
The High Court dismissed a mother’s appeal for orders compelling the father to assist with her Long Term Visit Pass, holding the request was not a proper custody remedy under the GIA.
The High Court dismissed an application to appoint a same-sex partner as guardian of two children, holding s 5 of the GIA does not create a broad power to do so.
The High Court dismissed a mother’s appeal against setting aside a deed poll that changed her child’s name and racial group, holding the guardian could apply and welfare was paramount.
A grand-aunt’s appeal for custody failed. The court held she lacked locus standi under the Guardianship of Infants Act, and wardship was not warranted.
The High Court allowed a mother’s appeal and permitted her child to relocate from Singapore to the United Kingdom, after balancing the child’s welfare, access, and disruption.
The High Court refused leave to appeal in a custody dispute, holding that the children’s welfare supported care and control with testamentary guardians, with supervised access for the mother.
The High Court dismissed both appeals, leaving the child in the mother’s care with access to the father and upholding the interim divorce judgment.
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