In re the Custody of Shields

— Chris Shields is the only child of Michael Shields and Susan Harwood who divorced when Chris was three years old. Under the parenting plan, Chris was placed with his father by agreement of the parties and his mother was granted liberal visitation rights. When Chris was five *111years old, his mother moved to Oregon and his father remarried. Mr. Shields later adopted his wife’s daughter, and the couple had a child of their own. When Chris was 11 years old, Mr. Shields died as the result of an accident. Upon learning of Mr. Shields’s death, Ms. Harwood informed the Shields family that she would…