Hazel v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Joint custody is an arrangement whereby both parents share the decision making in major areas concerning their child's upbringing.... If, as in the instant case, the parties to a joint custody agreement are unable to agree on a major issue concerning their child's upbringing, the trial court, with its continuing jurisdiction over custody matters, must conduct a hearing to evaluate the circumstances and resolve the issue according to the child's best interest. Once the parents have abdicated their role as custodians to the trial court, its decision is binding on the parties until it is shown that the decision is detrimental to the child physically or emotionally, or is no longer in his best interest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Young v. Holmes