193 Md. App. 178 - Brandenburg v. LaBARRE’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Troxel v. Granville · Ross v. Hoffman · Walter v. Gunter · Koshko v. Haining · McDermott v. Dougherty
Most-quoted passages
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“The bar for exceptional circumstances is high precisely because the circuit court should not sit as an arbiter in disputes between fit parents and grandparents over whether visitation may occur and how often. In the instant case, the fit parents chose to end contact between their children and the paternal grandparents because of a personal dispute between the parties. Although the trial court may, and did, disagree with this choice, it must defer to the parents’ wishes absent proof of significant deleterious effect caused by the cessation of visitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Victoria C.“[T]he length of time the child has been away from the biological parent, the age of the child when care was as sumed by the third party, the possible emotional effect on the child of a change in custody, the period of time which elapsed before the parent sought to reclaim the child, the nature and strength of the ties between the child and the third party custodian, the intensity and genuineness of the parent’s desire to have the child, [and] the stability and certainty as to the child’s future in the custody of the parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Victoria C.“The trial court was not permitted to draw an inference from the mere amount of time the children once had spent with the grandparents or the generally loving and bonded relationship they had had with them that the cessation of contact between the appellees and the children had harmed the children. The [grandparents] bore the ultimate burden of showing harm and they failed to present the court with facts from which it could draw a reasonable inference of significant deleterious effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Victoria C.
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