Citing a pediatrician’s advice and two recent New York legal decisions, a Nassau County Supreme Court justice granted a father decision-making authority in regard to getting his children vaccinated for COVID-19 over the strong objection of their mother, who divorced the father in 2016 and shares custody of the children.

In a detailed opinion addressing the “limited” issue of medical decision-making authority with regard to vaccinations for the three children, Justice Stacy Bennett wrote that she is “mindful of the allegations made by both parties” over supposed negative or controlling actions regarding the children by the other parent, and that she “declines to award full medical decision making authority to either party.”

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