Newcomb v. Newcomb’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 492 So. 2d 1193 - Bergeron v. Bergeron · 643 So. 2d 478 - Muller v. Muller · 552 So. 2d 576 - McGee v. McGee · 599 So. 2d 486 - Beard v. Beard · 702 So. 2d 1102 - Hebert v. Blanchard
Most-quoted passages
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“[I]n order to protect children from the detrimental effects of too liberal standards in custody change cases, the burden of proof should be heavy and the showing of overall or net benefit to the child must be clear. To accommodate these interests, the burden of proof rule should be restated as follows: When a trial court has made a considered decree of permanent custody, the party seeking a change bears the heavy burden of proving that the continuation of present custody is so deleterious to the child as to justify a modification of the custody decree, or of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is substantially outweighed by its advantages to the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.