Divorced Parents in S’pore Went to Court Over Where Son Will Have Reunion Dinner

We’re already two weeks into the new year and in a month, it’ll already be Chinese New Year.

How can we not look forward to food, visitations, hong baos and most importantly, spending time with family.

Within groups and visitor limits of eight people of course.

But for some families, the holiday season brings about more problems instead of the festive spirit.

Divorced Parents in S’pore Went to Court Over Where Son Will Have Reunion Dinner

Especially if you’re the kid caught between your parents arguing.

Lianhe Wanbao reported that a divorced couple in Singapore has been fighting in court over who their 13-year-old son should spend Chinese New Year with.

Apparently, this has been going on for around a year.

The couple had been married for 25 years, from 1987 till they separated in 2012.

They had four children, including an eldest who had passed away and two daughters who aren’t minors.

It meant that they did not need the court to decide custody.

Since the divorce, the parents had shared custody of the youngest son.

He would spend weekends and school holidays with his father and the other days with his mother.

Strained Relationship

However, this changed in 2019.

The parents’ relationship began to worsen, and the woman attempted to change the terms of their joint custody.

Namely, a request to allow both parents to take turns spending time with their son on the eve of CNY.

She alleges that neither parent had managed to make proper arrangements over who their son would spend time with over the holiday.

However, the father apparently insisted on bringing the son to his family for reunion dinner and have him over till day two of CNY.

He said that growing up, the boy should spend more time with relatives as reunion meals with the woman did not include any relatives.

Taking It To Family Court

Unfortunately, this situation only gets messier from here, because Donald Trump isn’t the only person who brings everything to court.

The case eventually got brought to court, and the judge noted that the boy should spend the period with both parties.

The judge said the boy could have dinner with his mom first before heading over to his dad after 8.30pm.

Which was a notion that both parents rejected.

Lianhe Wanbao noted that the man’s argument was that the boy would be too full after one meal to have another one with him.

This was quickly rejected by the High Court, saying that there was nothing wrong with attending another reunion dinner.

In the end, the High Court judge told the parents to settle the matter amicably among themselves and eventually rejected the parents’ appeal.

A point brought up was to avoid adding any extra pressure onto the child and ruining the holiday for him.

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