Warren P. Denise v. Philip C. Tencer

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]hile parental rights have long been recognized under the common law, historically, grandparents have not enjoyed similar preferential treatment.”
• “As a matter of legal definition and fact, according grandfather the status of custodian gave him precisely the same child-rearing autonomy as that enjoyed by a parent.”
• the party seeking to modify custody and visitation has the burden of proving that a material change in circumstances occurred since the entry of the last order
• “[I]t surely does not follow that rights analogous to the constitutional rights enjoyed by a parent may not be established by other means, the most salient of which are court-adjudicated findings that . . . the non-parental party is a proper custodian.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).