527 So. 2d 1030 - Bailey v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2003
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wilmot v. Wilmot · 339 So. 2d 835 - Ducote v. Ducote · 433 So. 2d 705 - Everett v. Everett · Dungan v. Dungan · Peters v. Peters
Most-quoted passages
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“Thus, in the final analysis, the issue is the stability of daily environment (which appears superior at [the father's] residence) as opposed to the stability of remaining in the present long-term environment (at his mother's home). In this particular case, we opt for the latter, believing that there is no showing that the child's current routines have been detrimental or that they are extreme. We determine that the long-term stability of environment the child has had with his mother is a more important consideration than an improved "daily routine" at [the father's] residence. More succinctly, there is no compelling reason to remove this child from a competent three and one-half year environment to obtain a somewhat better daily routine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact that one parent is better off financially and can provide a better home and a larger degree of material benefits is not a factor for consideration where the other home is adequate. Peters v. Peters, 449 So.2d 1372 (La.App. 2d Cir.1984). Moreover, the non-domiciliary parent has the obligation to provide a level of support equal to that available if the child were housed in the residence of the non-domiciliary parent. Ducote v. Ducote, 339 So.2d 835 (La.1976); Wilmot v. Wilmot, 223 La. 221 , 65 So.2d 321 (1953); Culpepper v. Culpepper, 514 So.2d 701 (La.App. 2d Cir.1987); Sims v. Sims, 457 So.2d 163 (La.App. 2d Cir.1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A change from a stable environment should not be made absent a compelling reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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