Supreme Court of Canada Decision: Dunmore v. Mehralian

The Supreme Court of Canada released the following decision on 2025-06-20:

Dunmore v. Mehralian, 2025 SCC 20 [link to case]

Case in Brief

  • The Supreme Court concludes that the guiding principle to determine where a child resides for the purpose of custody proceedings under Ontario’s Children’s Law Reform Act is whether the child is at home in a place, not whether the parents intended to settle there.