Decker v. Lyle

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a temporary custody decision must be based on the child's best interest and not as a sanction for a parent's behavior
• confirming that while there is no requirement that a trial court make specific written findings in awarding custody, either “the record or the final judgment must reflect that the custody determination was made in the best interests of the child”
• confirming that while there is no requirement that a trial court make specific written findings in awarding custody, either \the record or the final judgment must reflect that the custody determination was made in the best interests of the child.\
• noting that a “decision of the trial court on the issue of temporary custody must be based upon the best interests of the child and not as a sanction for the conduct of either of the parties” (citations omitted)
• reversing and remanding where neither the transcript of the trial court’s oral pronouncement of its ruling nor the temporary custody order addressed the best interests of the child

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