Scott v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that “the trial court is vested with broad discretion in making decisions concerning custody”
• emphasizing that “the trial court is vested with broad discretion in making decisions concerning custody”
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that changes were not so significant as to constitute a material change in circumstances
• under the abuse-of-discretion standard of review, it is not our duty as an appellate court to re-weigh the evidence, even if we would have done so differently
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the material changes in circumstances were not sufficient to remove custody from the mother despite the CASA worker’s recommendation that custody be changed to the father

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Green v. Krebs
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-31· cited 8×
• Palmer v. Pinkston
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 7×
• Blue v. Hemmans
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-23· cited 7×
• Ormond v. Ormond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-02· cited 5×
• Curtis v. Klimowicz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-16· cited 4×
• Weiss v. Varnadore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-03· cited 4×
• McCall v. McCall
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-13· cited 4×
• Radcliffe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-12· cited 3×
• Martin v. True
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 1×
• Richard Poaps v. Haesun Park-Poaps
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Tannis N. Brazil v. Oliver L. Williams Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-05-21
• Tyler Perry v. Kaitlyn v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-08-31
• The COASTAL BANK v. LARRY RAWLINS, JR.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-11
• Kevin Blue v. Tonella Hemmans
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-23

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blackburn v. Blackburn
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-06· cited 41×
• Weaver v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 36×
• In the Interest of A. R. B.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-02· cited 18×
• Hayes v. Hayes
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-01-31· cited 18×
• Baldwin v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-12· cited 16×
• In the Interest of S. D. J.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-30· cited 16×
• Crumbley v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-06· cited 14×
• Sullivan v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-22· cited 6×