Liner v. Liner’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““Under the well settled jurisprudence of this Court the right of the mother to the custody of the minor child is paramount to that of the father, except in those cases where she is found to' be morally unfit or where, in very exceptional instances, she is found to be incapable of taking care of the child. See White v. Broussard, 206 La. 25 , 18 So.2d 641 , and cases cited therein; Willis v. Willis, 209 La. 205 , 24 So.2d 378 ; State ex rel. Morrison v. Morrison, 212 La. 463 , 32 So.2d 847 ; State ex rel. Diehl v. Ducote, 213 La. 641 , 35 So.2d 415 ; Sampognaro v. Sampognaro, 215 La. 631 , 41 So.2d 456 ; Meyer v. Hackler, 219 La. 750 , 54 So.2d 7 ; and Ane v. Ane, 220 La. 345 , 56 So. 2d 570 . “An examination of the record in this case discloses a complete lack of evidence as to the mother’s unfitness as well as absence of any allegation that the mother is in any manner an unsuitable person. There is clearly no merit in appellant’s claim that the trial judge should have permitted questions by which his counsel sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of a child born to appellee by a previous marriage, since such evidence could have no bearing on her present fitness. See State ex rel. Henry v. Lyons, 139 La. 273 , 71 So. 507 ; cf. State ex rel. Martin v. Garza, 217 La. 532 , 46 So.2d 760 . Appellant’s argument that the trial judge erroneously admitted and considered the unsworn report of the Juvenile Probation Officer avails him nothing, since the record, stripped of this report,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Lott v. Courtney