Equal Protection & Shared Parenting Presumptions

Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause analyses of unequal custody presumptions, fit-parent parity, and legislative equal shared parenting reforms.

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The Equal Protection Clause prohibits state family courts from arbitrarily stripping one fit parent of equal custody and decision-making authority following divorce or separation. Without an adjudication of unfitness, discriminating between two fit parents in parenting time violates fundamental constitutional parity and equal protection.

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