E.W. v. J.W.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “It is entirely possible that the trial court believed that Father did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he truly felt harassed by Mother’s alleged conduct. Alternatively, one might infer from the trial court’s order that the trial court believed every word of Father’s story, but because Father already received a full year’s benefit of a protection order and because Mother’s conduct was a product of Father’s refusal to allow visitation, further extension of the protection order was unnecessary to protect Father after resolution of the visitation issue. Of course, all of this is pure speculation^]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lisa Costello v. Wayne Zollman

2. “even if[, contrary to the trial court’s findings,] communication between [the noncustodial mother] and [her child] did appear insignificant between May 2010 and May 2011, [during which time mother had weekly three-hour visits,] ... [i]t is undisputed that [the mother’s] communication with [her child] increased-in the two years after May 2011 [before the adoption petition was filed in September 2013]. It ivould defy logic to allow a long-past, one-year period of poor communication to overcome a lengthy period of significant communication that immediately precedes the adoption petition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Adoption of E.B.F., J.W. v. D.F.

3. “[T]here was no evidence to suggest that any continuing problems have occurred between the parties for several months even if at one time there might have been issues. Assuming that there were issues in the past, [F]ather does not have clean hands in this matter, as he was inappropriately denying the mother visitation rights to her son at that time, which could have contributed to the issues between them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lisa Costello v. Wayne Zollman