Your Authoritative Source on Singapore Law

Less Payne in the International Relocation of Children? BNS v BNT [2015] 3 SLR 973

Jonathan Muk Chen Yeen

(2016) 28 SAcLJ 303

Abstract:
The best interests of a child dictate the question of whether international relocation should be granted by the court. This note examines the Court of Appeal decision in BNS v BNT and suggests that the manner in which the welfare principle is applied increasingly seeks to protect parental relationships, which are viewed as something valuable and which go toward the child’s welfare.