Harris v. Snelgrove

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] parent has a right of custody to her child in preference to a third party unless there is clear and convincing evidence that the parent is unfit.”
• trial court properly determined mother’s gross income by extrapolating from information about her assets, her earning capacity given her specialized skills, her expenses, and other “relevant circumstances”
• The focus of a determination of fitness “must be the parent’s ability to provide for the child in a manner sufficient to preclude the need for an entity of the government to intervene and separate the child from the parent[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).