What if the childs best interest doesn coincide with the parents personal desires?
The court takes a look at what is in the child’s best interest always. Divorcing parents always have their own agenda and they always have their own preferences. For example, if the child is playing Little League and on the weekend your spouse has the child, and he just doesn’t want to take the child to the Little League game, or the practices that could be detrimental to the child. There needs to be a clear understanding, generally at the time when you do your final marital settlement agreement. What exactly are the parameters for putting your needs before the child’s? And certainly when it comes to the child’s socialization and school they are balancing enough with generally being shifted from one home to the other. It is not in the child’s best interest for the parent to supersede the child’s activities or taking the child out of school because they’re lonely or taking the child on vacation and not obtaining proper authorization from the schools. The child always has to be considere