In Re the Marriage of Downing

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• holding that the father’s ability to provide a stable educational environment, home environment, and physical location meant that awarding him physical care was in the best interest of the child
• modifying physical care when the moving parent denied visitation, withheld health information, intercepted mail, and even “remov[ed] the telephone from the house when she left the children alone so they would not call their father”
• finding “the custodial parent’s lack of cooperation with the noncustodial parent’s efforts to maintain satisfactory visitation and communication with the children evidenced a substantial change in circumstances warranting a modification of the dissolution decree”
• modifying physical care when the moving parent denied visitation, withheld health information, intercepted mail, and even “remov[ed] the telephone from the house when she left the children alone so they would not call their father”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).