Payrits v. Payrits

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• holding that credibility of witnesses, weight of evidence, and its persuasive effect are questions for family court
• concluding that court did not err in concluding that both parents served as primary care provider where they spent equal time with the children
• recognizing that, in determining children’s best interests, “the court may draw upon its own common sense and experience in reaching a reasoned judgment”
• recognizing that, in 3 determining the best interests of children, “the court may draw upon its own common sense and experience in reaching a reasoned judgment”
• explaining that in assessing child’s welfare court may “draw upon its own common sense and experience in reaching a reasoned judgment”
• upholding family court’s determination that because both parents spent approximately equal time with the children for the three previous years, both were the children's primary care providers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).