167 N.C. App. 365 - Martin v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shipman v. Shipman
Most-quoted passages
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“Our trial courts are vested with broad discretion in child custody matters. This discretion is based upon the trial courts’ opportunity to see the parties; to hear the witnesses; and to detect tenors, tones, and flavors that are lost in the bare printed record read months later by appellate judges. ... In addition to evaluating whether a trial court’s findings of fact are supported by substantial evidence, [an appellate court] must determine if the trial court’s factual findings support its conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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