· 12/7/2005
Kawatra v. Kawatra
Citations
- 182 S.W.3d 800
- 2005 Tenn. LEXIS 1052
- 2005 WL 3299836
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “The responsibilities of a parent do not end when a child is asleep, at school or day care, or otherwise outside of the parent’s presence”
- split of 37.8%-62.2% did not allow the court “to conclude that the parties spent substantially equal intervals of time with the child”
- split of 37.8% ‒ 62.2% “percentages do not permit us to conclude that the parties spent substantially equal intervals of time with the child”
- split of 37.8%-62.2% did not allow the court “to conclude that the parties spent substantially equal intervals of time with the child”
- “Tennessee Code Annotated section 36-6-108 does not define what constitutes ‘actually spending substantially equal intervals of time.’”
- further noting that the court should consider whether either parent has interfered with the other parent’s time with the child
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Justice Janice M. Holder
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