Women’s Charter 1961 - Singapore Statutes Online

Paramount consideration to be welfare of child

125.—(1) The court may at any time by order place a child in the custody, or in the care and control, of the child’s father or mother or (where there are exceptional circumstances making it undesirable that the child be entrusted to either parent) of any other relative of the child or of any organisation or association the objects of which include child welfare, or of any other suitable person.

[7/2016]

(2) In deciding in whose custody, or in whose care and control, a child should be placed, the paramount consideration is to be the welfare of the child and subject to this, the court is to have regard —

(a)	to the wishes of the parents of the child; and
(b)	to the wishes of the child, where he or she is of an age to express an independent opinion. [7/2016]

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