Determining Custody Criteria in the Context of the Best Interest of the Child

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor. Kharazmi University

2 Human Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran

10.22034/jlr.2018.130190.1161

Abstract

Deciding in the subject of custody and the children guardianship in a legal system totally depends on each system’s approach towards child and childhood’s conception. In this regard each system has it’s own factors. While we face with the concept of interest or Ghebte in Islamic jurisprudence, the best interest of the child (BIC) was bolded after convention on the rights of the child’s ratification (CRC) in 1989. Although Iran has joined the convention, the dynamic and ambiguous nature of interest prepare the possibility of different interpretations which will lead to judgements’ dispersion and assessors’ confusion. Thus CRC’s committee has tried to solve the problem and enjoying the internal laws may be effective. The aim of this research is the access to the custody criteria as the leading factors according to the CRC and internal laws’ capacity in the context of BIC. Thus presenting that criteria will be the result.

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Legal Research Quarterly
Volume 21, Issue 84
February 2019
Pages 299-324

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  • Receive Date: 07 July 2018
  • Revise Date: 29 August 2018
  • Accept Date: 08 October 2018

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