Say you’re a step-parent of a young child for a few years. Say you break up with that child’s biological parent. Should you be put on that child’s birth certificate in addition to the biological parents, and be awarded partial custody? In New Brunswick, the answer is yes.

This clarification comes to us from the New Brunswick Court of King’s Bench, which decided last week to grant partial custody of a five-year-old boy to his mother’s ex-girlfriend-turned-boyfriend.

That’s the short version. The long version is, in 2020, a New Brunswick woman named J.K., and her ex-husband, D.K., had a son, L, the child at the centre of the is court battle. But they didn’t exactly know it at the time. The two already had one child together in 2017 and separated in 2018. They continued to have sexual enc

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