Hammond v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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• reiterating that where custody dispute is between parents and third person, rights of parents are paramount unless there is showing that parents are unfit or that, for some substantial reason, custody in either or both parents would be detrimental to child’s welfare
• reversing an order granting temporary custody of a child to the maternal grandmother and remanding for reconsideration applying the parental preference standard instead of the substantial change in circumstances/best interest standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).