Lawson v. Board of County Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a trial court’s failure to interview a child who was ten years old, even when the parents agreed that the child should not be interviewed, requires reversal, because a court is “affirmatively required to consider the child’s preference”
• remanding to trial court when failure to make findings on established custodial environment was harmless
• failure to articulate established custodial environment findings was harmless where trial court applied clear and convincing evidence standard
• “Factor (e) requires a court to weigh all the facts bearing on which parent likely can best provide the child the benefits of a custodial home that is marked by permanence, as a family unit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).