Levitsky v. Levitsky

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• recognizing that “the fact that a parent teaches a child religious doctrines which are at variance with those of the majority is not a ground for a change of custody”
• requiring serious danger to life or health of child before determining protection necessary from exposure to parent’s religious beliefs
• ordering custody decree amended to remove Jehovah’s Witness mother’s power to refuse children’s blood transfusions where mother insisted she would refuse future transfusions for all her children “ ‘even if the result of her action was swift and sudden death’ ”
• after finding her conduct “a serious threat” to child’s life, court left custody with the mother but entered an order eliminating any requirement for her to consent to blood transfusions
• religious beliefs of mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, could not overcome the State’s interest in the welfare of her child, and blood transfusions for the minor were properly ordered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).