Posted by: "Doug Dante" dougdante1@yahoo.com dougdante1
Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:17 am (PST)
http://kidsshirt.net/interestinglykids/changing-child-visitation-parenting-time-modification-in-michigan-just-became-easier.html
"The Michigan Court of Appeals issued a new published decision on December 3,
2010, Shade v Wright, Mich. App Docket No. 296318 (2010)which held that it
ought to be, and now is due to this case, less difficult to change the
parenting time schedule than it is to alter custody. This case stated that in
order to decrease or boost child visitation with a parent there is a a lot more
relaxed burden of proof concerning a change of circumstances or correct trigger
as a threshold issue than there is with custody. The court went further and
stated that typical life changes such as those described above are correctly
considered when deciding this issue.
"In the Wright v Shade case cited above, the change that allowed the mother to
change the child’s visitation with the father was that their daughter had began
high school and her schedule of activities changed. This is precisely the sort
of change that trial courts specifically can not consider in order to change
custody. Several trial courts and friend of the court referees also believed,
before this opinion, that this was exactly the sort of change of circumstances
that they could not contemplate in order to allow a change to either improve or
limit child visitation. Those courts and referees that believed this were
wrong and hopefully they will now follow this case when thinking about these
problems simply because Wright v Shade is binding precedent."
Darrick Scott-Farnsworth
Executive Director www.AChildsRight.net www.daddyblogger.com
Cell 269 209-7144 or Nextel DC ID 130*112*19287
True Conservative: Pro-Life, Liberty and Property
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