Legal Opinion

In Re the Marriage of Kovacs

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 8, 1993No. 60035-0PublishedCited by 133 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtAndersen, C.J.

Facts of Case

The father in this marriage dissolution action seeks review of a Court of Appeals decision which reversed the trial court's order awarding primary residential care of the parties' three minor children to the father rather than to the mother. The father argues that the Court of Appeals applied the wrong legal standard when it held that the parent who has been the primary caregiver of the children during marriage must be designated as the primary residential parent in a dissolution action, unless that parent's personality, conduct or parenting style is found to have had an adverse…

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