28 Ark. App. 344 - Riddle v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis

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37 state decisions

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1. “Our chief concern with the theory advanced by the [mother] is that it requires no consideration of the children’s best interests: should the chancellor find that the natural parent of one step-sibling is not unfit and that exceptional circumstances are not present, he must, under the [mother’s] formulation, grant custody of all the children to that parent, without considering whether their best interests would be better served by granting custody to the other parent. The [mother’s] theory is thus in conflict both with [the statute] which mandates that custody be awarded “solely in accordance with the welfare and best interests of the children,” and with the well-settled principle that, in child custody determinations, the best interests of the child is the paramount concern.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crouse v. Crouse