Hays v. Gama

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the superior court erred by precluding evidence as a sanction for violating court orders because the exclusion of that evidence affected the court’s ability to consider the child’s best interests
• holding courts shall consider all relevant evidence relating to the children’s best interests in custody disputes
• noting that the best interests of the child are the “paramount” consideration in child custody cases
• holding sanctions excluding evidence improperly restricted the court’s ability to consider the best interests of the child and should not have been imposed when other sanctions were available to vindicate the court’s authority
• explaining that in a custody case, a “child’s best interest is paramount”
• noting, in Title 25 child custody context, “[w]e have repeatedly stressed that the child’s best interest is paramount in custody determinations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Nold v. Nold
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-05-30· cited 145×
• Lehn v. Al-Thanayyan
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2019-03-07· cited 120×
• Reid v. Reid
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-07-28· cited 60×
• Green v. Lisa Frank, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-01-20· cited 50×
• Gutierrez v. Hon. fox/kivlighn
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2017-04-13· cited 46×
• Department of Child Safety v. Beene
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2014-07-24· cited 41×
• Downs v. Scheffler
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2003-12-04· cited 31×
• Alvarado v. Thomson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-05-31· cited 27×
• Navajo Nation v. Arizona Department of Economic Security
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-08-28· cited 20×
• Arizona Depatment of Economic Security v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2011-11-08· cited 13×
• Kelly v. Kelly
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2021-11-16· cited 11×
• Thompson v. Corry
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-11-15· cited 10×
• Dep't of Child Safety v. Stocking-Tate
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2019-06-14· cited 4×
• Paul E. v. Courtney F.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2018-04-03· cited 2×
• ARIZONA DEPT. OF ECONOMIC SEC. v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2011-11-08· cited 1×
• Lisa Frank v. James A. Green
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-01-20
• Johnson v. Provoyeur
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2018-07-26
• Jf v. Hon. como/cf
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2022-07-12
• James A. v. Dep't of Child Safety
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2018-03-29
• Nicaise v. Hon Bernick
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-01-02

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-12-06· cited 344×
• Unnamed case
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-03-24· cited 92×
• Hoffman v. Hoffman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1966-09-02· cited 71×
• In the Interest of P.M.B.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-08-31· cited 58×
• Ong Hing v. Thurston
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-07-08· cited 35×
• Clifford v. Woodford
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1957-12-31· cited 24×
• Marriage of Woodworth v. Woodworth
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-03-26· cited 14×
• In Re the Marriage of Gove
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1977-12-17· cited 13×
• Franklin Tp. v. Quakertown
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1994-06-10· cited 13×