Newkirk v. Newkirk

How courts have described this case

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• holding that divorced father continued to owe child support to his children’s deceased mother’s brother where she asked her brother to be the guardian of her minor children
• finding exceptional circumstances in awarding custody of teenage children to half-brother, rather than natural father
• placing significant weight on the wishes of the 13 and 15 year old children to live with their adult half-brother rather than their father
• custody decision is not a matter of the best judgment of the reviewing court
• custody decision is not a matter for the best judgment of the reviewing court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).