Spahmer v. Gullette

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that although “the trial court applied the correct statute to the facts of the case,” its decision was nonetheless “manifestly unfair” so as to constitute an abuse of discretion
• noting that the creation and maintenance of a stable family situation for the child are two primary goals of the allocation of parental responsibilities
• noting that a “goal of a modification proceeding is to maintain . . . stability, if possible, in the best interests of the child”
• reversing a parenting time order that required a mother to remain in Colorado even though she had told both the father and the trial court of her intentions to relocate to Arizona
• “We construe a statute so as to give effect to every word, and we do not adopt a construction that renders any term superfluous.”
• “We construe a statute so as to give effect to every word, and we do not adopt a construction that renders any term superfluous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).