Painter v. Bannister

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a father who placed children temporarily with their grandparents did not permanently relinquish his parental rights
• indicating disapproval of father’s bohemian lifestyle, despite evidence of his care and concern for child, and giving grandparents custody on ground that their home provided “a stable, conventional, middle-class, middlewest background”
• considerable weight given to expert who spent twenty-five hours interviewing child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).