Guarino v. United States Postal Service

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• demonstrating a trial court must first conclude a substantial change in circumstances has occurred to proceed with the remaining modification analysis
• explaining because the trial court did not conclude there was a substantial change in circumstances, it could not conclude a change affected the welfare of the child, let alone that an effect could be clear.
• “a failure to obey an order of a court cannot be punished by contempt proceedings unless the disobedience is willful”
• “even if the ‘magic words’ are not used, the factual findings must still make the substantial change of circumstances and its effect upon the children clear”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).