April 12 | 12:00 AT / 12:30 pm NT
Hear the Child – The BC approach to including the child’s views and preferences.
Bev Churchill
Family Lawyer Collaborative, Mediator. Parenting Coordinator
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The new Divorce Act has a list of factors to help family lawyers, dispute resolution professionals, and the courts determine what is best for your child in your particular situation.
One of these factors is a child’s views and preferences. Hear the Child is an approach to obtaining the views of a child through a trained neutral child interviewer. The child interviewers meet with children and prepare a report that contains the child’s verbatim views so that their views can be considered by adults making decisions about the child’s best interests in a family justice process such as a mediation or court case. The interviewers do not assess the child nor the parents.
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Bev Churchill is a family lawyer, collaborative professional, mediator and parenting coordinator.