Second Hand Smoke and Child Custody Determinations - A Relevant Factor or a Smoke Screen?
9 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2009
Date Written: 1997
Abstract
The thesis of this brief article is simply that the tobacco habits of a parent are relevant and worthy of consideration when a child is asthmatic, or suffers from some other definable medical condition which would be exacerbated by passive smoke. However, when the child is healthy and there exists no definitive shortitem medical risk, the issue should be irrelevant. In other words, the court should consider those factors, and only those factors, which are of significant importance to the child, such as stability, caretaker skills, home environment and the child's wishes.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Sobie, Merril, Second Hand Smoke and Child Custody Determinations - A Relevant Factor or a Smoke Screen? (1997). Pace Law Review, Vol. 18, p. 41, 1997, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1515958
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