Shortridge v. Deel

How courts have described this case

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

• “Once the relinquishment of custody is established, the natural parents who seek to regain custody must bear the burden of proving that such change is in the child’s best interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gottlieb v. Gottlieb
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-27· cited 125×
• Bailes v. Sours
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 100×
• Klein v. Klein
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-10-09· cited 73×
• Stadter v. Siperko
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-06-03· cited 31×
• Smith v. Pond
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 26×
• Mason v. Moon
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-10-24· cited 25×
• Aviles v. Aviles
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-05· cited 22×
• Patrick v. Byerley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 21×
• Florio v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-04-17· cited 16×
• Virostko v. Virostko
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-03-20· cited 13×
• James v. James
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-09-06· cited 10×
• Dunbar v. Hogan
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-29· cited 10×
• Estate of Curtis v. Fairfax Hospital Systems, Inc.
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1990-09-21· cited 10×
• Robinette v. Keene
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 6×
• In re Custody of Sloan
  Amherst County Circuit Court· 1991-10-03
• Tanner v. Price
  Richmond County Circuit Court· 1999-03-24

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Walker v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-03-05· cited 40×
• Szemler v. Clements
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-03-04· cited 22×