People v. Porchea

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that best interest includes not just child’s survival needs or reasonable expenses but also, when possible, maintaining standard of living child would have enjoyed if family remained intact
• “Implicit in the judge’s consideration of this disparity [in income] is consideration of the children’s needs, defined in the light of [the father’s] higher standard of living”
• “[Cjhildren’s needs are to be defined, at least in part, by their parents’ standard of living,” which in some cases “includes the ability to provide certain opportunities . . . such as private school education”
• children’s needs defined in part by parents’ standard of living

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).