best-interest-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7518 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2025-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing 1 SHOULD THE TRIAL COURT 'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONER 'S MOTION FOR UNSUPERVISED TIMESHARING SHOULD BE REVERSED BECAUSE THE ORDER DENYING THE MOTION …
24-425 Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. Montana 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1) best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan In Troxel v. Granville, this Court concluded that Washington's Grandparent Visitation Statute unconstitutionally infringed a fit parent's federal cons…
23-1244 Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Freeman, fka Katherine Lyman Robinson Colorado 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights divorce-law due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights parenting-time Parenting time scarcity wreaks havoc on relationships between children of divorce and a parent on whom minority time is imposed by court order. Where …
23-1170 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri 2024-04-30 Denied best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody civil-procedure dual-citizenship expert-witness family-law judicial-consideration state-court testimony Whether the state courts erred in using Petitioner's dual citizenship status as consideration in their final judgment. Whether the state courts prope…
23A950 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete best-interest-standard constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-misconduct parental-rights Question not identified.
23-5866 James Allen Brickley, Jr. v. Marie Laurence Gloria Joseph-Stephen Texas 2023-10-24 Denied IFP best-interest best-interest-standard civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing termination termination-proceedings In a parental-rights termination case, when deciding the sufficiency of the evidence to terminate, must the court have evidence to of every element re…
21-1088 Jose Luis Alvarez v. Gabriel Pinon Washington 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law family-life fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights standing Since freedom of personal choice in matters of family life is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the U.S. Constitution, did the state court e…
21-6782 A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children Colorado 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus…
20-1516 Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu Ohio 2021-04-29 Denied best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness 1. Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary caregiver's—constitutional right to leg…
20-452 S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-08 Denied 14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights Is the decision to terminate parental rights Constitutional, where the court determined that adoption to an Amish home is in the best interest of the …
20-349 Fred S. Pardes v. Andrew S. Wienick, et al. California 2020-09-15 Denied best-interest-standard constitutional-rights emotional-fitness family-law grandparent-alienation grandparent-visitation parental-rights pre-existing-relationship troxel-v-granville 1- Whether or not there exists a rebuttable presumption as a general rule, that Grandparent visitation is in the best interest of minor grandchildren,…
19-8356 Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody l.Do parents have the right to direct the upbringing of there children? 2. Can parents rights over-rule grandparent's rights. . Are grandparents cou…
19-577 Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey New Mexico 2019-11-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing A New Mexico district court issued an interim order removing a three-year-old girl from her mother's custody without a prior hearing. The court did no…