In the Matter of Marriage of Hruby and Hruby

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] natural parent has the right to the custody of his or her children, absent a compelling reason for placing the children in the custody of another.”
• father's ancient common-law right to his children was qualified by eighteenth and early nineteenth century decisions in which equity courts exercised their parens patriae power to look after minors unable to care for themselves
• father’s ancient common-law right to his children was qualified by eighteenth and early nineteenth century decisions in which equity courts exercised their parens patriae power to look after minors unable to care for themselves
• legislative history shows that intervention statute “was intended to allow the trial court to ‘hear everyone’ and to ‘know all the facts’; it was not intended to go beyond that ‘to make suggestions to the court’ regarding what to do with that evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).