149 N.C. App. 876 - Johnson v. Adolf’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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1. “5. The parties hereto entered into a parenting agreement that became an order of the court July 9, 2003. According to the agreement the three sons are to be in [husband’s] care for a period of time each weekend and every Tuesday from 3:30 p.'m. until 6:00 p.m. Due to [husband’s] work schedule at the time the parties agreed in October 2003 to a modification of this schedule eliminating the Friday night every other weekend. In March of 2006 the parties further modified the schedule and [husband] began having his sons in his care every other weekend from Saturday at 9:00 a.m. until late on Sunday afternoon and every Tuesday. In addition there is some holiday time and three weeks in the summer. [Husband] has not exercised all of his three weeks in the summer but he has exercised the other times. This past summer he used two weeks of his time. 8. Since the entry of the order approving the Parenting Agreement and the oral agreement modifying it there has been a substantial change in circumstances in that [husband] no longer works on Friday nights and rents a three-bedroom townhouse instead of a one-bedroom apartment. The children are older now as they were only 6 months, 2 years and 4 years when the parties separated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 N.C. App. 622 - Frey v. Best

2. ““The welfare of the child in controversies involving custody is the polar star by which the courts must be guided in awarding custody.” “In a custody modification action, even one involving a parent, the existing child custody order cannot be modified [unless] . . . the party seeking a modification [first shows] that there has been a substantial change in circumstances affecting the welfare of the child].]” 2”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 212 N.C. App. 113 - Hibshman v. Hibshman

3. “Because these determinations involve an exercise of judgment and an application of legal principles, they are appropriately classified as conclusions of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 159 - Allen v. Allen