Kaster v. Riley

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the use of the word “shall” “indicates a mandatory and imperative directive[]”
• “Part of a guardian’s responsibility is to provide for the ward’s social well-being . . . [but the guardian] was not willing to facilitate these relationships and was, in fact, actively impeding them.”
• “[W]e will defer to the probate court on matters of credibility, and will give broad deference to findings made by the probate court because of its unique vantage point regarding witnesses, their testimony, and other influencing factors not readily available to the reviewing court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).