Boddie v. Daniels

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “best interest” standard “must be narrowly interpreted to mean that the third party must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the child will suffer physical or emotional harm . . . by terminating the temporary guardianship”
• holding a guardianship will be terminated unless the guardian can prove, in part, clear and convincing evidence that the child will suffer significant harm if custody were awarded to the parent
• holding a guardianship will be terminated unless the guardian can prove, in part, clear and convincing evidence that the child will suffer significant harm if custody were awarded to the parent
• noting that the best interest of the child standard must be applied \so as to ensure that the temporary guardianship will be continued only when a real threat of harm would result from termination\
• recognizing that temporary guardianships are only temporary
• requiring guardian to prove by clear and convincing evidence that terminating the guardianship would harm the child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).