Briggs v. Clemons’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2003
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Squires v. Squires · Mennemeyer v. Mennemeyer · Stinnett v. Stinnett · Jacobs v. Edelstein
Most-quoted passages
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“if a party to joint custody can prove that the child's present environment in the custody of the other parent endangers his physical, mental, or emotional health, that is sufficient to likewise modify joint custody, even if the evidence establishes that the parties have been cooperating in good faith with one another.”) This adoption of the KRS 403.340 standard for joint custody cases — a standard that the Court had held in Benassi only applied to sole custody modification — was necessary, the Court stated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fenwick v. Fenwick
How this case has been treated — in progress
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