Case Title: Grant v. Dailey

Citation: 

Docket Number: 38, 2021

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
GINA GRANT,1 
 
 
Petitioner Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
MASON L. DAILEY, 
 
Respondent Below,  
         Appellee. 
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§  No. 38, 2021 
§ 
§  Court Below—Family Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
§     
§  File No. CS19-01117 
§  Petition No. 19-02213 
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  Submitted:  February 18, 2022  
 
 
 
 
  Decided:  February 28, 2022 
 
Before VAUGHN, TRAYNOR, and MONTGOMERY-REEVES, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
After careful consideration of the supplemental briefs and the record on 
appeal, we conclude that the judgment below should be affirmed on the basis of the 
Family Court’s order following remand dated November 29, 2021.  The appellee’s 
arguments challenge the Family Court’s factual findings regarding the parties’ 
income and expenses.  On appeal from a Family Court order entered after a hearing, 
this Court accepts the trial court’s factual findings if they are sufficiently supported 
by the record and are the product of an orderly and logical deductive process.2  Only 
when the factual findings are clearly wrong and justice requires that they be 
 
1 The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 7(d). 
2 Garrison v. Downing, 226 A.3d 195, 197 (Del. 2020). 
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overturned will this Court make contradictory findings.3  Moreover, when the 
determination of facts turns on a question of credibility and the acceptance or 
rejection of the testimony of the witnesses appearing before the trier of fact, this 
Court will not substitute its own opinion for that of the trier of fact.4  We do not find 
the findings of the Family Court to be clearly wrong, and we therefore find no basis 
for reversing the Family Court’s order. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Family 
Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Gary F. Traynor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
3 Langford v. Langford, 2019 WL 719039, at *1 (Del. Feb. 19, 2019). 
4 Shimel v. Shimel, 2019 WL 2142066, at *2 (Del. May 14, 2019).