This May 2015 judgment of Mumbai Bandra family court is the first in India which in an interim child custody/visitation order, has asked both mother (petitioner) and father (respondent) to make a parenting plan, and has created a shared parenting plan based on those submitted by both of them. It has also explicitly refers to benefits and necessity of Shared Parenting in child custody matters, and to December 2014 recommendations of Law Commission on shared parenting. Following are the main points of the judgment: 1. It has divided the interim custody of daughter for 6 months of the year each to father and mother. There is another Sep 2013 judgment of Karnataka HC which did something similar, but that order was not based on creating a shared parenting plan and did not refer to that … [Read more...] about Mumbai Bandra Family court judgment on joint equally shared custody based on parenting plan
Children's Rights
Points for shared parenting, child access, and custody to fathers
Since the law commission has recently asked for suggestions and comments on a shared parenting consultation paper, I am listing down some points based on my understanding of law, it’s practice, and actual scenario for fathers in Indian family courts. You can use these points if you want to give feedback to law commission, or suggest your own based on your own thoughts and experience. NGOs can also base their response based on following points. Note for those short on time: copy and paste the 12 points and responses given below and email to Law Commission at [email protected] before 5th Dec 2014 (technically speaking last date is 8th Dec being 4 weeks from Nov 10th but better safe than sorry) Note: the main source used is data from the book: The Garbage Generation - By Daniel Amneus. … [Read more...] about Points for shared parenting, child access, and custody to fathers
Who needs fathers: BBC documentary
BBC is recently doing a documentary on cruel system in UK denying fathers access to their children. Agony of the frozen-out fathers: BBC documentary Watching a preview of next week’s BBC series Who Needs Fathers?, I felt ashamed to be a woman. The men on the programme appeared to be loving, attentive fathers – not extremists in Batman costumes. All they wanted was to play their part in the upbringing of their children. But, at every turn, it seemed, vengeful, short-sighted women were selfishly trying to thwart them. Further there are some statistics on number of children who are growing up without fathers, the figures do not seem much different from India’s: Too few children are growing up with that balance. Ninety three per cent of children live with their mother after a … [Read more...] about Who needs fathers: BBC documentary