Jones v. Strauser

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• welfare of child is polestar in every child-custody case, and natural father, though he has a preference, had not met his burden to support taking custody of child from maternal grandmother
• father's consent to agreement giving custody of child to grandparents diminished his parental preference such that he bore the burden of showing that a modification of the existing arrangement was warranted based on the child's welfare
• father's consent to agreement giving custody of child to grandparents diminished his parental preference such that he bore the burden of showing that a modification of the existing arrangement was warranted based on the child's welfare

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).