Dailey v. Kloenhamer’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “In child custody cases, an abuse of discretion occurs if the result [is] so palpably and grossly violative of fact and logic that it evidences not the exercise of will but perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 322 Mich. App. 266 - Susan Reanel Ludwig v. Craig Cooper Ludwig

2. “in child-custody disputes, 'all orders and judgments of the circuit court shall be affirmed on appeal unless the trial judge made findings of fact against the great weight of evidence or committed a palpable abuse of discretion or a clear legal error on a major issue.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 322 Mich. App. 266 - Susan Reanel Ludwig v. Craig Cooper Ludwig

3. “[d]iscretionary rulings ... are reviewed for an abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 322 Mich. App. 266 - Susan Reanel Ludwig v. Craig Cooper Ludwig