In re Reinstatement of Southwell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that mistreatment requires “at least a substantial risk of mental or physical injury”
• holding that potential negative impacts of living with one parent and the stress of relocating to a new state did not “demonstrate or express the sort of immediate danger inherent in the words ‘abuse’ or ‘mistreatment’ ”
• finding that “plain meaning of ‘mistreatment’” . . . equate[s] it with ‘abuse’ and impl[ies] that [the UCCJEA] contains a redundancy, which the law abhors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).