Spires v. Bergman

How courts have described this case

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• noting that once the trial court determined that MCL 722.31 did not apply, it properly approved the parent’s request to move the child out of state
• “[W]hen the parent seeking the change of domicile has sole legal custody of the child, MCL 722.31 does not apply.”
• in each, the party who sought to change domicile had sole legal and physical custody
• “Only when the parents share joint physical custody and the proposed change of domicile would also constitute a change in the child’s established custodial environment is it also necessary to evaluate whether the change of domicile would be in the child’s best interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).