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Cummings v. Cummings

Citations

  • 821 P.2d 472
  • 175 Utah Adv. Rep. 23
  • 1991 Utah App. LEXIS 175
  • 1991 WL 250700

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that Hogge-Becker test must be fully satisfied only in the absence of those exceptional circumstances mentioned in Maughan
  • explaining that, in part, a party's \failure to provide intelligible information\ regarding income supported the court's imputation of income based on historical earnings
  • reversing the district court’s custody determination based on its failure to make findings regarding evidence relating to important custody factors
  • requiring trial courts to \determine whether there is sufficient evidence of a substantial and material change in cireumstances\ before \reexamination of the custody question\
  • reversing a custody modification where the district court failed to give proper consideration or weight to the prior custody arrangement and relied too heavily on the child’s preference
  • Elmer “allows evidence of the best interests of a child to be introduced for determining changes in circumstances as well as for determining the best interests, if reached”

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Judges: Billings, Greenwood, Jackson

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