Focus on child’s welfare over parental rights in custody battles say experts

 Source: The New Indian Express

Courts must stop viewing custody battles as a fight between parents and instead focus on the child’s emotional wellbeing, emphasised legal experts and judges at a session -- Parental custody of children: Orders regarding visitation rights and custody issues -- during the Southern Zone Regional Conference on ‘Family: The Basis of Indian Society’. The two-day event, organised by the Family Courts Committee and Supreme Court of India in association with High Court of Karnataka and Karnataka Judicial Academy, concluded on Sunday. They also raised concerns about the challenges posed by cross-border custody disputes, the lack of coordination between jurisdictions and the need for a uniform approach guided by the child’s best interests.

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