Domingues v. Johnson

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• holding that there is no need to address each finding of fact where appellant does not allege specific fact-finding error
• discussing relationship between question of changed circumstances and best interests standard in modification of custody case
• observing that, “where both parents are interested, and are actively involved with the life of the child on a continuing basis, a move of any substantial distance may upset a very desirable environment, and may not be in the best interest of the child”
• observing that, “where both parents are interested, and are actively involved with the life of the child on a continuing basis, a move of any substantial distance may upset a very desirable environment, and may not be in the best interest of the child”
• explaining that in rendering a custody determination “[t]he fact finder is called upon to evaluate the child’s life chances in each of the homes competing for custody and then to predict with whom the child will be better off in the future.” (quoting Sanders, 38 Md. App. at 419)
• “How valuable the mature guiding hand and love of a second parent may be to a child is taught by life itself’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).