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welfare of the child

phrase

A2CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The child's overall wellbeing, which the court treats as its paramount consideration in any decision about the child.

The judge stressed that the welfare of the child was paramount and outweighed the father's own wishes.

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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