· 11/30/1982
Kenneth G. Lloyd v. Irma Loeffler and Alvin F. Loeffler
Citations
- 694 F.2d 489
- 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 23706
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that federal courts are not well suited to the task of child custody disputes because federal courts are not local institutions, and such cases require “continuing judicial supervision of a volatile family situation”
- asking whether the present dispute would have been handled as an ancillary proceeding to the underlying domestic relations matter
- “[I]f there are children [the decree] will provide for custody, visitation rights, and child support payments as well.”
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Judges: Pell, Eschbach, Posner
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