Weigle v. Devon T.

How courts have described this case

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• approving the family court’s failure to give weight to an expert witness’s testimony regarding lack of harm to child when witness had never met child or adoptive family
• good cause to deny transfer found based on sixteen-month delay between the permanency planning hearing and the tribe's request to transfer
• court denied transfer because the tribe delayed 16 months after receiving notice before it made its motion for transfer
• a request to transfer should precede permanency planning in dependency proceedings
• almost all witnesses in California, sought transfer to New Mexico
• trial court properly considered child's best interests in denying transfer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).