Hays v. Gama

How courts have described this case

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• 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).