Taylor v. Dougherty

How courts have described this case

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• first and paramount duty of courts is to consult welfare of child; parental entitlement to custody of child will not be enforced to detriment of child
• \Violence of temper . . . might constitute unfitness\
• “Parents are the natural guardians of their minor child and entitled to its custody. But they have no absolute property right of which they can in no way be deprived without their consent. Their right will not be enforced to the detriment of the child”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).