Phelps v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “One of the reasons, Mr. Phelps, I had to look at, there is just no way — as my eye doctor told me the other day, you know, time is working on your eye, lady. He didn’t say age. He said time. But I think you have to take that into consideration. This is a young child, and you are not a young man, and I think it is important that this child be raised in one home. And that that home has to be the one that is apparently going to last the longest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phelps v. Phelps