Joint custody

Today's Court of Appeal decision in Giri v. Wentges, 2009 ONCA 606 repeats the long standing principle that joint custody will only be granted where the parents can cooperate:

[10]          Second, as this court has repeatedly held, joint custody requires a mutual commitment between parents to cooperate on matters pertaining to the raising of their child, and an ability for the parents to put their own interests behind those of the child: see Kaplanis v. Kaplanis (2005), 249 D.L.R. (4^th) 620 (Ont. C.A.).