FAMILY LAW AND THE BEST INTERESTS
OF THE SEPARATED CHILD
Relocation, incarceration, military deployment, and incapacity due to
illness or hospitalization each represent their own unique dilemmas
for the child and the family system, but together highlight questions
about the child’s well-being while a parent is absent.
Although our shared mandate is to assure that children have the
opportunity to establish and maintain a healthy relationship with both
of their parents (or, more broadly, with all of their caregivers), these
dilemmas pose practical challenges and conflicting priorities for the
family law professional. In the spirit of fulfilling this mandate, we might
generalize the innovations that have arisen in these separate areas to
apply across all of them. For example:
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