Moeller-Prokosch v. Prokosch

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the superior court failed to “consider the detriment to [the child] if he were separated from his mother upon her move to Florida.”
• holding court must engage in best interests analysis that includes “symmetric consideration” of consequences to child both if parent leaves with child and if parent leaves without child
• describing symmetric analysis required when one parent wants to move out of state with child
• “Performing the best interests analysis based on [the mother’s] assumed move requires symmetric consideration of the consequences to [the son] both if she leaves with him and if she leaves without him.”
• requiring trial courts to symmetrically analyze consequences for child of parent’s relocation
• \[Olur decisions recognize that courts may properly award primary custody to the relocating parent when that parent offers superior emotional stability.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).