2000 Pa. Super. 42 - McAlister v. McAlister’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 400 Pa. Super. 174 - Gruber v. Gruber · 442 Pa. Super. 381 - Alfred v. Braxton · 455 Pa. Super. 587 - Swope v. Swope · 453 Pa. Super. 324 - Gancas v. Schultz · 1999 Pa. Super. 249 - Thomas v. Thomas
Most-quoted passages
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“In order to decide whether a custodial parent and children shall be permitted to relocate at a geographical distance from a non-custodial parent, a trial court must consider the following factors. First, the court must assess the potential advantages of the proposed move and the likelihood that the move would substantially improve the quality of life for the custodial parent and the children and is not the result of a momentary whim on the part of the custodial parent. ... Next, the court must establish the integrity of the motives of both the custodial and non-custodial parent in either seeking the move or seeking to prevent it.... Finally, the court must consider the availability of realistic, substitute visitation arrangements which will adequately foster an ongoing relationship between the child and the noncustodial parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.