Schulz v. Department of Social & Health Services

How courts have described this case

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

• establishing the right of grandparents to intervene on the issue of placement after the parents' rights have been terminated
• no preference to grandparents is ever superior to the right of the child to have his or her best interest and welfare protected
• no preference to grandparents is ever superior to the right of the child to have his or her best interest and welfare protected
• a termination case in which the court rejected grandparents’ claim to custody
• “Grandparents will ordinarily be favored in custody proceedings against those other than parents, but such preference does not prevent the grandparents’ claim from being rejected when the paramount consideration of the child’s welfare requires it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).