best-interest-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7518 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2025-06-26 Dismissed IFP appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing Whether the trial court's denial of unsupervised timesharing was improper due to lack of specific findings of fact or conclusions of law
24-425 Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. Montana 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1) best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan Whether a state statute allowing court-ordered parental interest without finding parental unfitness violates due process rights under the Fourteenth A…
23-1244 Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Freeman, fka Katherine Lyman Robinson Colorado 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights divorce-law due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights parenting-time Does disparate allocation of parenting time under a best interest statute violate equal protection when both parents are equally fit?
23-1170 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri 2024-04-30 Denied best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody civil-procedure dual-citizenship expert-witness family-law judicial-consideration state-court testimony Whether the state courts erred in using Petitioner's dual-citizenship-status as consideration in their final-judgment
23A950 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete best-interest-standard constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-misconduct parental-rights Whether a state family court's application of the 'Best Interest' standard violates a parent's constitutional rights to due process and equal protecti…
23-5866 James Allen Brickley, Jr. v. Marie Laurence Gloria Joseph-Stephen Texas 2023-10-24 Denied IFP best-interest best-interest-standard civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing termination termination-proceedings Sufficiency of evidence to terminate parental rights
21-1088 Jose Luis Alvarez v. Gabriel Pinon Washington 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law family-life fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights standing Whether the state court erred by looking to the best interest of the child as the basis for granting nonparental custody when it is insufficient to ov…
21-6782 A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children Colorado 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus…
20-1516 Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu Ohio 2021-04-29 Denied best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary right to legal and physical custody of her…
20-452 S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-08 Denied 14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights Termination of parental rights-constitutionality
20-349 Fred S. Pardes v. Andrew S. Wienick, et al. California 2020-09-15 Denied best-interest-standard constitutional-rights emotional-fitness family-law grandparent-alienation grandparent-visitation parental-rights pre-existing-relationship troxel-v-granville Whether a rebuttable presumption exists that grandparent visitation is in the best interest of minor grandchildren where there was a pre-existing lovi…
19-8356 Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody Are grandparents counted as a third party?
19-577 Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey New Mexico 2019-11-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing Can a court temporarily remove a child from her parent's custody without a pre-deprivation hearing whenever the court deems it in the child's best int…