Armstrong v. Panzarino

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court erred by modifying child custody plan based on default judgment where the mother willfully failed to appear
• “[T]he ‘best interest of the child’ standard precludes a determination of child custody based on a parent’s default.”
• “In making a determination on child custody according to the best interests of the child ‘guidepost,’ the court should have the benefit of the testimony of both parents.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).