Does divorce end a parent's legal rights and duties toward children?

Family Law

No. Section 118 expressly provides that termination of the parents' marital relationship does not end the child's legal rights against the parents or the parents' legal obligations toward the child.

This is a fundamental distinction: divorce ends the marriage, not parenthood.

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