Moody v. Moody

How courts have described this case

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

• “The fact that someone else may be in a better position to furnish the child a larger and more convenient home in which to live does not necessarily mean it would be in the best interest of the child to take it from a parent who is otherwise fit to have the custody of the child.”
• “The fact that someone else may be in a better position to furnish the child a larger and more convenient home in which to live does not necessarily mean it would be in the best interest of the child to take it from a parent who is otherwise fit to have the custody of the child.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sellers v. Sellers
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-06-09· cited 121×
• Logan v. Logan
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-12-31· cited 42×
• In Re Custody of MAG
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-09-18· cited 28×
• Hayes v. Rounds
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-07-20· cited 17×
• Jeffrey Scott Waites v. Amy M. Waites Ritchie
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-12-11· cited 17×
• Roger Lynn Neely v. Kaleb Matthew Welch
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-11-10· cited 11×
• James Wilson v. Pearlean Davis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-01-07· cited 9×
• Bond v. Bond
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-01· cited 7×
• D.M. v. D.R.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-03-31· cited 6×
• Gary K. Logan v. Shirley Ann Logan
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-04-21
• Dm v. Dr
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-03-31
• April Quen Garner v. Judi L. Garner
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2019-10-03
• Sumrall v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2017-09-19
• In Re The Adoption of J.J.W.B.: J.B., Sr. and P.B. v. M.M.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2024-11-21
• Michael Hutson v. Jacob Hutson and Theresa Hutson
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2023-10-03