Roberts v. Vilos

Contested custody decisions for children, as a search for their best interest, cannot be extricated from a computer program nor elicited like a mechanical exercise by weight in application of factors, facilities and protection of parental ego. At the same time, decisions must be made when parents choose to live apart, which is more than conventional in this country today. It is in analysis of the probabilities of all intangibles attendant to raising children that sound discretion and judicial decision are addressed. It never can be easy and, assuredly, cannot be expected to be certain.

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