Derek Redmond v. Mary Redmond

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• recognizing that “the concept of acclimatization has little meaning” for very young children
• recognizing “ ‘parental intent acts as a surrogate’ in cases involving very young children for whom the concept of acclimatization has little meaning”
• recognizing “‘parental intent acts as a surrogate’ in cases involving very young children for whom the concept of acclimatization has little meaning”
• explaining that all circuits essentially “consider both parental intent and the child’s acclimatization, differing only in. their emphasis,” and refusing “to set in stone the relative weights” of each factor
• finding that there was sufficient evidence of child’s .acclimatization in Illinois where child had frequent contact with his extended family, went to daycare, pre-school, and church, had neighborhood friends, and played on a baseball team
• finding respondent, who had sole custody of the child at issue, had the \exclusive right to fix the place of [the child's] residence\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).