Legal Opinion
Link v. Link
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided November 3, 2011No. 28919-2-IIIPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSiddoway, J.
¶1 Tia Link appeals the summary denial
of her motion to regain custody of her son, T.L., from Tia’s *271mother, to whom Tia relinquished custody during a time she was struggling with substance abuse. Tia argues that because she relinquished custody of T.L. by agreement and no contested hearing has ever found that she is an unfit parent or that her custody of T.L. would be an actual detriment to him, the court below should not have conditioned her right to a hearing on the difficult threshold showing required of a parent who previously lost custody to a nonparent on the merits. We agree that the…
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