Custody 2024

"The parties, who were never married, are the parents of a son who is approximately nine years old. They share legal custody of the son"

Shared legal custody is ordered, which is a movement in the right direction  This case is about a dispute that arose between the parties, and the court was asked to step in and decide

"the wife received primary physical custody)"

No explanation is made as to why this decision was made, it is not a custody case, the court is simply repeating their bias against treating parents as equals

In this case an unwed father loses a custody battle to the maternal grandparents.  It is not a well written case   Once the mother became ill, the maternal parents started helping to care for the child, but also were uncooperative with the father.  The father's faults were that he was convicted of assault on a family member (which member we are not told) and he was incarcerated for a time.  It is claimed that the father had little contact with the child once the mother moved to live with her parents, however it is also revealed that the mother had a 209a restraining order against the father, making such contact impossible, unless something was worked out.

The guardianship may have been appropriate, but this opinion does little to explain why