Irle v. Foster

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Determining child custody is among the most difficult decisions our chancellors must make. And our appellate review of custody decisions is narrow — we will only reverse if the chancellor applied incorrect legal standards or his factual findings were manifestly wrong or clearly erroneous.

¶ 2. Here, the chancellor made the difficult decision that it was in the best interest of a child for her grandparents to be awarded custody, instead of her mother, who was her sole surviving parent. He arrived at this conclusion by applying the correct legal standard for a…