14 Wash. App. 194 - McDaniel v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2010
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 60 Wash. 2d 122 - DeHeer v. Seattle Post-Intelligencer · 76 Wash. 2d 533 - Rankin v. Ferriter · 24 Wash. 2d 52 - White v. White · 61 Wash. 2d 181 - Mooney v. American Mail Line, Ltd. · 6 Wash. App. 722 - Weber v. Weber
Most-quoted passages
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“"(1) The court shall not modify a prior custody decree unless it finds, upon the basis of facts that have arisen since the prior decree or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior decree, that a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his custodian and that the modification is necessary to serve the best interests of the child. In applying these standards the court shall retain the custodian established by the prior decree unless: "(a) The custodian agrees to the modification; "(b) The child has been integrated into the family of the petitioner with the consent of the custodian; or "(c) The child's present environment is detrimental to his physical, mental, or emotional health and the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is outweighed by the advantage of a change to the child."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The child's environment under the custody decree/parenting plan/residential schedule is detrimental to the child's physical, mental or emotional health and the harm likely to be caused by a change in environment is outweighed by the advantage of a change to the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where a custody decree is entered upon default, the court has had no opportunity to observe the two contending parents upon the witness stand or to examine the evidence concerning their fitness and concerning the welfare of the child. It must accept the allegations of the petitioner or, at best, the uncross-examined testimony of the petitioner. Therefore, in such a case, the rule that a change of circumstances must be shown before a change of custody can be ordered does not have its usual efficacy." 14 Wash. App. at 197 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Hill
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