Koron v. Melendy

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a trial court is not bound to accept the parties’ agreement to child custody but can accept it if it is in the child’s best interests
• there must be a distinction between cases in which custody is contested and cases where the parties present the court with an agreement regarding custody
• implicit in the court’s acceptance of a stipulation is its determination that the arrangement is in the child’s best interests
• “Implicit in the trial court’s acceptance of the parties’ custody and visitation arrangement is the court’s determination that the arrangement struck by the parties is in the child’s best interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).