Ellerbe v. Hooks

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is a child custody case involving a dispute between a parent and a non-parent. The case arose on the petition of the child’s father seeking custody of his daughter Carla. Carla, then eleven years old, had been living with her maternal grandmother. The court of common pleas denied the father’s petition and awarded custody of Carla to her grandmother. On appeal the Superior Court reversed, hold*366ing that the trial court, in failing to give the parent-child relationship sufficient consideration, did not apply the proper legal standard. We granted allowance…