Legal Opinion
Dumas v. Woods
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 11, 2007No. 05-FM-1270PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Associate Judge:
Appellant Wendy Dumas appeals from a Superior Court order granting legal and physical custody of her son J.D. solely to the child’s father, appellee Woods, and ef fectively denying the parties’ request for joint legal custody. We find that the trial court’s brief written order contains insufficient analysis to permit us to assess whether the court considered all of the relevant factors and whether it correctly applied the statutory presumption favoring joint custody, which applies with particular force when the parents have agreed to joint custody. Accordingly, we…
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