After a 12-year-old girl expressed her desire to live with her father, the Delhi High Court has transferred her custody to her father from that of her mother, who has been granted visitation rights.<\/p>\n
Before deciding an application filed by the girl\u2019s mother, the judge spoke to the child in chamber.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe child is mature and fairly intelligent; her thoughts are coherent and consistent,\u201d said Justice Indermeet Kaur in an order delivered last week and made available to Monday.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s parents, still legally married, live separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a 12-year-old girl expressed her desire to live with her father, the Delhi High Court has transferred her custody to her father from that of her mother, who has been granted visitation rights. Before deciding an application filed by the girl\u2019s mother, the judge spoke to the child in chamber. \u201cThe child is mature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,5432],"class_list":["post-14407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-justice-indermeet-kaur"],"yoast_head":"\n