Riley v. Doerner

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “no rigid test or magic words should stand in the way of the chancellor as he or she acts to improve the child’s welfare . . .”
• holding that “where a child living in a custodial environment clearly adverse to the child’s best interest ] somehow appears to remain unscarred by his or her surroundings, the chancellor is not precluded from removing the child for placement in a healthier environment”
• affirming modification of custody where custodial home was site of dangerous and illegal behavior, including drug use
• “clarify[ing] that a chancellor is never obliged to ignore a child’s best interest in weighing a custody change; in fact, a chancellor is bound 9 to consider the child’s best interest above all else”
• Evidence established that the custodial parent’s home was the site of illegal drug use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).