Ironwoods Troy, LLC v. Optigolf Troy, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• “the central judgment” concerns whether parent “has the capacity to act as a fit parent”
• bond between child and foster parent “is a factor that has weight in the ultimate balance”
• “compelled absence ... by reason of incarceration [does not conclusively render a parent unfit, but may be] taken into account” in determining parental unfitness
• judge found that removal of child from adoptive parents, with whom she had lived since shortly after birth, would place child at serious psychological risk
• evidentiary hearing not mandated in every instance, especially when change of circumstance is insufficient to grant new trial
• “Fitness to act as a parent, in statutory and decisional context, involves inquiry not only into the capacity of the biological parent but into the best interests of the child”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).