Best Interests Of The Child

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Determining the best interests of the child is the guiding judicial principle followed in all divorce proceedings

In divorce law, a judge’s most compelling legal standard in deciding legal and physical custody, visitation rights, adoption, or almost any other family-related legal matter is whether the ruling is in the child’s best interests.

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