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In re Marriage of Littlefield

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Superseded by statute
Court
Supreme Court of Washington
Citation
133 Wash. 2d 39
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
36 of 36
Citing cases (total)
36
Treatment dates
2000
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. In re Marriage of Littlefield's ruling on parental relocation was superseded by Washington's 2000 relocation legislation, as confirmed below. All 36 flagged citations have been read.
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Later Washington opinions continue to use Littlefield's separate standard for reviewing a trial court's exercise of discretion.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

36 later cases cite In re Marriage of Littlefield; 36 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Superseded by statute

  • The court recognized that Washington's 2000 legislation superseded Littlefield's parental relocation ruling.

    In re Marriage of Christel and Blanchard · Washington Court of Appeals, Division One · filed

    [3] The legislature superseded the decisions of In re Marriage of Littlefield, 133 Wash.2d 39, 940 P.2d 1362 (1997) and In re Marriage of Pape, 139 Wash.2d 694, 989 P.2d 1120 (1999). See Chapter 21, Laws of 2000.
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