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Welfare Of The Minor And Responsibilities Of A Welfare State The worst possible thing that can happen in a child’s life, apart from losing a parent, is to become a rolling ball in a parents’ divorce and the ensuing custody battles. Whilst the spouses and their families hurl accusations and try to get the better […]

Shared Parenting and Visitation Rights During Child Custody Litigation The Need For Implementation Of Shared Parenting and Home Visitation Of Minors With Their Non Custodial Parents Instead Of Just 2 Hours Once Or Twice A Month Within The Court Premises During The Adjudication Of  Child Custody Litigation In Guardian & Family Courts In Pakistan Family

Child Custody Law in Pakistan The recent trend in our society is seeing a paradigm change in matrimonial relationships, with an increasing number of divorce cases, particularly since the last two decades, while more and more middle and lower-middle class couples have been approaching family courts for divorce, resulting in the rise of bitter child

PAKISTAN is facing a quiet but rather devastating child welfare crisis, one that unfolds daily in family and guardian courts, but remains largely invisible in public discourse. Across the country, an estimated one million children, including several hundred thousand in the province of Punjab alone, are caught in prolonged custody and visitation disputes. For most

After more than two decades in family litigation, I believe it is time to rethink custody, visitation and parenthood. Every custody dispute involves three persons the mother, the father and, most importantly, the child. Yet the child’s interests can become secondary to the conflict between the adults. Custody is not parenthood. One parent may provide

For decades, custody disputes have often been approached as a contest between two parents:Who should get custody?Perhaps we need to ask a different question:What arrangement best serves the child?A child is not property to be divided between parents after a marriage breaks down.And a father does not become a stranger to his child merely because

In custody disputes, we often describe one parent as the “custodial parent” and the other as the “non-custodial parent.” The terminology can quietly shape the way we think. One parent becomes the parent who has the child. The other becomes the parent who is given access. But custody determines residence and day-to-day care. It does

The question of when a child is ‘old enough’ to be heard in custody proceedings is deceptively simple. In Pakistan, Section 17(3) of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 permits courts to consider the preference of a minor ‘old enough to form an intelligent preference,’ yet provides no objective criterion for determining when such capacity

Dear Esteemed Seniors and Learned Colleagues, The ongoing evolution of family law jurisprudence increasingly challenges our traditional approach to domestic litigation. While Section 5 of the West Pakistan Family Courts Act, 1964 read with its Schedule vests exclusive jurisdiction over child custody, our foundational substantive law remains the colonial-era Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. Despite

Introduction Parental alienation constitutes a multifaceted psychological phenomenon that most commonly arises in the context of high-conflict custody disputes. Initially conceptualized by R. A. Gardner as Parental Alienation Syndrome, the construct describes situations in which a child persistently rejects one parent as a result of intense interparental conflict, combined with systematic indoctrination by the favored