Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 27, 2000No. 97-FM-1806PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Asocíate Judge:
In this appeal, Jennifer Johnson seeks reversal of the trial court’s award of primary residential custody of her daughter, K, to K’s father, Keith Washington. Johnson asserts that the court improperly based its custodial decision solely on a desire to avoid further discontinuity in K.’s living environment by leaving her in Washington’s physical custody, a situation which had been created when the trial court, because of docket congestion, continued the trial and failed to entertain Johnson’s pre-trial motions for pendente lite support due to docket pressures. Athough we…
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