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Urgent health decisions and communication between parents

Anonymized summary · Document examined: proposal for agreement

A proposed agreement distinguished important decisions that had to be made jointly from urgent actions that did not allow the other parent to be consulted first.

What was proposed

The text contemplated that whoever was with the son could act in an emergency and then inform the other. The point was to maintain parental coordination without making an immediate need depend on a consultation that was impossible at that moment.

Keys to understand the case

The casuistry allows explaining a specific communication and decision-making clause. It should be read together with the rest of the health provisions and with the resolutions that govern the family. This review does not convert the localized agreement into a general authorization to exclude the other parent from decisions that can be consulted.

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