Jermstad v. McNelis

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a \natural father [has] a parental preference to the custody of his child where ... the father has diligently pursued an opportunity to establish a protected custodial relationship\
• recognizing that a “natural father [has] a parental preference to the custody of his child where ... the father has diligently pursued an opportunity to establish a protected custodial relationship”
• construing \best interests\ standard in light of Lehr to create parental preference over prospective adoptive parents when natural parent has diligently pursued opportunity to establish custodial relationship
• construing “best interests” standard in light of Lehr to create parental preference over prospective adoptive parents when natural parent has diligently pursued opportunity to establish custodial relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).