Comfort of child should be taken into account while deciding custody matters involving children: HC
Mumbai, Aug 17 (PTI) Welfare of a child includes both physical and mental well-being, health, comfort and overall social and moral development, the Bombay High Court has said while upholding a family court's order handing over the interim custody of a girl to her mother.
Welfare of a child is of paramount consideration in deciding the custody matters and child's comfort is one of the factors that is to be taken into account, it said.
A single bench of Justice Sharmila Deshumkh in the order of July 21 dismissed a petition filed by the woman's husband challenging a February 2023 order passed by the Bandra family court directing him to hand over the custody of the eight-year-old daughter to the estranged wife.
