Hager v. Hager

In this proceeding, the Court was required to determine whether the lower court was correct in denying Erica Hager’s (hereinafter referred to as “Ms. Hager”) petition for “joint physical custody” of her child. Instead of addressing this very narrow issue, the majority awarded Erica Hager full custody of the child. In reaching this decision, the majority states, on the first page of its opinion, that: “Most of the convoluted procedural and substantive history of this contested divorce/child custody case, which has gone on since 1997, is of no importance to the substantive issues before this…