Pearson v. Ellis-Gross
Annotate this CaseFather and Mother were the parents of a minor child. In 2004, the district court entered a parental rights and responsibilities order granting the parties shared parental rights and responsibilities and shared primary residence. In 2007, the court amended the order so that the child would reside primarily with Mother and would stay with Father on weekends. In 2013, Mother moved to modify the 2007 order seeking sole parental rights and responsibilities, primary residence of the child, and a requirement that Father’s contact with the child be supervised. The court granted the motion. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err when it implicitly found a substantial change in circumstances and expressly concluded that it was in the child’s best interest to grant Mother sole parental rights and responsibilities and to require that Father’s contact with the child be supervised.
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