R v G (Surrey County Council intervening)

Subject Matter

MINOR — Custody — Care order — Custody order in father's favour — Children moving from one parent to another — Frequent litigation — Whether “exceptional circumstances” making it impracticable or undesirable to “entrust” children to either parent — Children committed to care of local authority — Local authority's proposal to place boy with father — Whether jurisdiction to make order — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 43(1) (as amended by Child Care Act 1980, Sch 5, para 34)

[1984] Fam 100; [1984] 3 WLR 667