Bailes v. Sours

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• overruling in part Williams v. Williams, 192 Va. 787, 792, 66 S.E.2d 500, 503 (1951) and Surber v. Bridges, 159 Va. 329, 335, 165 S.E. 508, 510 (1932)
• ordering custody to minor child’s stepmother over mother where special facts and circumstances overcame presumption in the parent’s favor
• natural parent preference may rebutted by showing of unfitness or of \special facts and circumstances... constituting an extraordinary reason for taking a child from its ... parents\
• parental unfitness, previous order of divestiture, voluntary relinquishment, abandonment or \special facts and circumstances . . . constituting an extraordinary reason for taking a child from its parent\
• parental unfitness, previous order of divestiture, voluntary relinquishment, abandonment or “special facts and circumstances . . . constituting an extraordinary reason for taking a child from its parent”
• hoI ng that a ruling which has a substantial \likelihood of flicting se ous harm\ to the child \is repugnant to the child's best interest\

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