ORDER

Prologue:

“Marriage today is no longer a sacrament, but an art of conciliation and adjustment.”

2. This case epitomizes the tragic consequence of how modern domestic complexities can distort familial bonds. Here, a minor child has been thrust into the vortex of litigation, not to protect his welfare, but as an instrument to vent the latent animosity of an embittered father-in-law against his divorced and peacefully remarried daughter-in- law. What ought to have been a matter of parental care has been converted into a tool of vengeance, where the estranged husband, instead of acting with responsibility, has chosen to act through his father, making his own minor son a mere pawn in their continuing matrimonial discord.

3. This Court cannot