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· 10/14/2005

Maybin v. Stewart

Citations

  • 885 A.2d 284
  • 2005 D.C. App. LEXIS 537
  • 2005 WL 2665433

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the mother “necessarily had to retain counsel to defend her child’s best interests”
  • concluding that trial court did not abuse its discretion by requiring father to attend counseling with child as condition of resuming visitation, because trial court, after hearing evidence from all parties, was “merely considering [child’s] best interests, as it was obliged to do”
  • “[W]hen counsel is required by the party in whose custody the court has deemed to have been in the child’s best interests, attorney’s fees may be granted to that party in defending such grant.”

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Judges: Washington, Terry, Wagner

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