IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA

January 2022 Term

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No. 21-0253

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JARED M.,

Petitioner Below, Petitioner

v.

MOLLY A.,

Respondent Below, Respondent

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Monongalia County

The Honorable Cindy S. Scott, Judge

Civil Action No. 13-D-528

REVERSED AND REMANDED

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Submitted: March 15, 2022

Filed: April 26, 2022

J. Marty Mazezka, Esq.

Charleston, West Virginia

Counsel for Petitioner

Michelle L. Bechtel, Esq.

Gianola, Barnum, Bechtel & Jecklin, L.C.

Morgantown, West Virginia

Alyson A. Dotson, Esq.

Ambler & Dotson, LC

Lewisburg, West Virginia

Counsel for Respondent

JUSTICE ARMSTEAD delivered the Opinion of the Court.

JUSTICE ALAN D. MOATS, sitting by temporary assignment.

FILED

April 26, 2022

released at 3:00 p.m.

EDYTHE NASH GAISER, CLERK

SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS

OF WEST VIRGINIA
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CHIEF JUSTICE HUTCHISON and JUSTICE WOOTON dissent and reserve the right 

to file dissenting Opinions.
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SYLLABUS BY THE COURT

1. “In reviewing a final order entered by a circuit court judge upon a 

review of, or upon a refusal to review, a final order of a family court judge, we review the 

findings of fact made by the family court judge under the clearly erroneous standard, and 

the application of law to the facts under an abuse of discretion standard. We review 

questions of law de novo.” Syl. Pt., Carr v. Hancock, 216 W. Va. 474, 607 S.E.2d 803 

(2004). 
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Armstead, Justice: 

The petitioner father in this matter, Jared M.,1 filed a petition in the Family 

Court of Monongalia County seeking to modify a parenting plan for his daughter, E.M.,

due to substantial changes in circumstances. The family court denied the petition and 

subsequently awarded attorney fees to the respondent mother, Molly A. The Circuit Court 

of Monongalia County affirmed these decisions, and Jared M. filed this appeal. 

Based on the record before us, the arguments of the parties, and the 

applicable law, we find that the family court’s finding of no substantial change in 

circumstances was clearly erroneous; therefore, we reverse and remand this matter to the 

family court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. 

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 

Jared M. and Molly A. share a child, E.M., who was born in February 2012. 

In September 2013, E.M. was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which was surgically 

removed. Removal of the brain tumor also entailed removing E.M.’s pituitary gland, 

resulting in the requirement that she be administered hormone replacement medication. As 

a result, her caretakers must be attentive and prepared to administer medication 

immediately, particularly during times of illness, stress, or elevated temperatures. 

Otherwise her health can deteriorate rapidly in a life-threatening manner.

1 In cases involving sensitive facts, we use initials to identify the parties. See

W. Va. R. App. P. 40(e) [eff. 2010]; see also State v. Edward Charles L., 183 W. Va. 641, 

645 n.1, 398 S.E.2d 123, 127 n.1 (1990). 
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Jared M. and Molly A., who were never married, ceased cohabiting in or 

about December 2013, and Jared M. filed a family court petition to establish custody and 

a parenting plan. While the case was pending, E.M.’s brain tumor returned, and in August 

2014, she underwent a radioactive implant procedure. Fortunately, the tumor has not 

returned.

In September 2014, when E.M. was approximately two years and eight

months old, Jared M. and Molly A. signed an agreed parenting plan. The parenting plan 

designated Molly A. as E.M.’s custodian and primary residential parent, with Jared M. 

having parenting time with E.M. from Wednesday morning to Thursday evening each week 

and every other weekend from Friday evening to Sunday evening. This arrangement meant 

that Molly A. had E.M. approximately seventy percent of the time during a given two-week 

period. Each parent also received one week of summer vacation with the child. 

At the time of the September 2014 parenting plan, Jared M. was working 

full-time. Molly A. was unemployed and provided full-time care. The parenting plan gave 

Molly A. primary responsibility for coordinating and scheduling E.M.’s weekly therapies

and designated Molly A. as the “primary contact” for E.M.’s medical providers. Due to 

E.M.’s medical condition, the parenting plan expressly required each parent, while 

exercising physical custody, to “be present at all times[,]” provided that the child could be 

left with a grandmother. No other person was to care for E.M. without the other parent’s 

consent, and each parent had a right to babysit whenever the other parent planned to leave 
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the child in a non-grandparent’s care for more than four hours. The family court approved 

the parenting plan in November 2014.

In December 2017, Jared M. filed a petition to modify the parenting plan. He 

alleged that circumstances had changed substantially due to a number of factors, including: 

his job change, Molly A.’s joining the workforce, E.M.’s age and enrollment in 

kindergarten, and Molly A.’s regular use of babysitters other than grandmothers. Jared M. 

further alleged that his income had declined, that Molly A. had failed to notify him of a 

medical malpractice suit regarding E.M., and that the parenting plan was “not working as 

contemplated” and was “manifestly harmful to the child.”2 As a result of the changes in 

2 Specifically, Jared M. alleged, in part, as follows in his Petition and Motion 

to Modify Parenting Plan:

4. The parties have experienced a substantial change of 

circumstance as follows:

a. The Petitioner has changed job duties and is selfemployed and his hours are more flexible to allow time 

for him with the minor child.

b. The Respondent was not employed at the time that the 

parties entered into the parenting plan is now employed 

full time for her family.

c. The Respondent is residing in Morgantown and the 

Petitioner is residing in Morgantown.

d. The minor child is now school age and enrolled in 

kindergarten at St. Francis.

e. The child is enrolled in private school and the parties 

have been sharing the cost of tuition, fees, and uniforms 

equally.

f. Respondent has regularly allowed other people besides 

the grandmothers to watch the minor child including, 

the Respondent’s boyfriend, her step-father, and a 

(continued . . .)
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circumstance alleged by Jared M., he stated in his petition that “[t]he Petitioner desires the 

parenting plan be modified to provide the Petitioner with additional quality time given the 

parties’ proximity to one another, the parties’ employment changes, and due to the needs 

of the child due to her age and maturity.” Accordingly, Jared M. sought, among other 

things, equal parenting time, a modification of child support, and a new babysitting rule 

that would require the parent with physical custody who was required to be absent to allow 

the other parent to babysit in lieu of the grandmothers.

Following extensive discovery, the family court conducted an evidentiary 

hearing in October 2018. The hearing lasted more than seven-and-a-half hours. Jared M. 

babysitter that the minor child has mentioned on several 

occasions.

g. The Petitioner and Respondent have been equally 

involved in the child’s medical treatment since birth and 

the Petitioner is well able to care for the child and has 

while she was in his care.

h. The Petitioner’s income has decreased due to the 

employment change which would warrant a change in 

the child support.

i. It not clear due to the Respondent’s securing of 

employment whether medical insurance is available to 

her at a reasonable cost through her employment. The 

Petitioner provides health insurance for the child despite 

being self-employed. He believes this issue needs to be 

addressed.

j. The Respondent has violated the shared decision

making provisions of the parenting plan by filing a 

medical malpractice lawsuit related to the minor child’s 

serious medical problems but did not tell or inform the 

Petition of the suit which he just happened to find. The 

Petitioner should have been notified and part of the 

litigation since the parties were jointly involved in the 

child’s care since birth.
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presented testimony from twelve witnesses, including Jared M. and Molly A., and entered

32 exhibits into evidence. Molly A. offered only one witness, the child’s pediatric 

endocrinologist.3

 The family court denied Jared M.’s petition from the bench and later 

entered a written order.

The family court’s January 2019 order finds no substantial change in 

circumstances due to E.M.’s additional three years of age,4 Molly A.’s new job, or Jared 

M.’s job change. Although Molly A. “was a stay-at-home mother until the child started 

school[,]” the court found that Molly A.’s eventual “work outside of the home” was 

“anticipated” due to her “need to support herself and the child.” Regarding Jared M.’s job 

change, the court found that Jared M. remains a “full-time independent contractor who 

spends time in the corporate office” and that his tax returns show he “travelled 30,000 miles 

in 2016 and 2017[.]” Significantly, the family court also found that Jared M. had consumed 

“a voluminous amount of the [c]ourt’s time” and dismissed a substantial number of

additional arguments raised by Jared M. The family court did, however, modify the 

parenting plan’s babysitting rule to provide that each parent must be offered the right to 

care for E.M. whenever the other parent is away for more than 24 hours and to include a 

3 The family court heard the endocrinologist out of order and, after hearing 

Jared M.’s witnesses, found that no additional witnesses were necessary.

4 The family court arrived at three years by measuring “from the entry of the 

current parenting plan to the filing of the Petition for Modification . . . .”
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memorandum of understanding between the parties that resulted from mediation. Subject 

to these modifications, the parenting plan was ratified and confirmed.5

In January 2019, Molly A. renewed a prior motion for attorney fees, arguing 

that Jared M. “acted in bad faith, wantonly[,] and for oppressive reasons.”6

 After a further

hearing, the family court entered a February 2019 final modification order awarding Molly 

A. $5,000 in attorney fees. The family court explained that “it should have been clear to . 

. . [Jared M.] that there was no substantial change in circumstances to warrant a 

modification of the parenting plan . . . .” 

Jared M. separately appealed both orders to circuit court, and after 

consolidating the appeals, the circuit court affirmed the family court’s orders ratifying and 

confirming the parenting plan and awarding Molly A. attorney fees in a February 26, 2021 

order.7

 According to the circuit court order, though the parenting plan made no provision 

5 The family court order also memorialized the parties’ agreement to add 

Molly A.’s boyfriend, Jared M.’s girlfriend, and Molly A.’s stepfather to the list of 

approved babysitters. 

6 See Syl. Pt. 3, Sally-Mike Properties v. Yokum, 179 W. Va. 48, 365 S.E.2d 

246 (1986) (“There is authority in equity to award to the prevailing litigant his or her 

reasonable attorney’s fees as ‘costs,’ without express statutory authorization, when the 

losing party has acted in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly or for oppressive reasons.”). 

7 The circuit court entered a cursory order affirming the family court in 

August 2019. On appeal, we reversed the circuit court and remanded the case for a proper 

order to be entered. See Jared M. v. Molly A., No. 19-0764, 2020 WL 7233165, *1 (W. 

Va. Dec. 7, 2020) (memorandum decision) (“[I]n the order on appeal, the circuit court 

failed to set forth findings of fact and conclusions of law sufficient to allow meaningful 

appellate review. We, therefore, reverse the circuit court’s August 1, 2019, order and 

remand the case to the circuit court with instructions to draft a new order setting forth 

findings of fact and conclusions of law sufficient for meaningful appellate review.”). 
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for changes in employment, neither the parents’ new jobs nor “the various other changes 

that have taken place” are “significant enough” to warrant a modification. Regarding 

counsel fees, the circuit court merely recited the family court’s findings and upheld the 

award of counsel fees without further analysis. 

Jared M. appeals from the circuit court’s February 26, 2021 order. 

II. STANDARD OF REVIEW 

In this appeal, Jared M. challenges a circuit court order that affirms a family 

court final modification order. We have held that 

[i]n reviewing a final order entered by a circuit court 

judge upon a review of, or upon a refusal to review, a final 

order of a family court judge, we review the findings of fact 

made by the family court judge under the clearly erroneous 

standard, and the application of law to the facts under an abuse 

of discretion standard. We review questions of law de novo. 

Syl. Pt., Carr v. Hancock, 216 W. Va. 474, 607 S.E.2d 803 (2004). With this standard of 

review in mind, we will consider Jared M.’s appeal. 

III. ANALYSIS 

Jared M. raises three assignments of error. He contends (a) that the family 

court erred by failing to find a substantial change in circumstances, (b) that the family court 

erred by failing to make any findings regarding E.M.’s best interests, and (c) that the family 
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court erred by awarding attorney fees to Molly A.8

 Jared M. claims, in particular, that 

E.M.’s advancement in age and maturity, Molly A.’s entry into the workforce, and his own 

job change—whether these changes are considered alone or in combination—demonstrate 

that a substantial change in circumstances has occurred for purposes of the modification 

statute.9

 Molly A. denies these claims, but after careful review, we agree with Jared M.

that a substantial change in circumstances has occurred. 

A. Modification Based on a Substantial Change in Circumstances. 

The applicable provision of the West Virginia Code provides that: 

[e]xcept as provided in section 9-402 [§ 48-9-402] or 9-

403 [§ 48-9-403], a court shall modify a parenting plan order 

if it finds, on the basis of facts that were not known or have 

arisen since the entry of the prior order and were not 

anticipated therein, that a substantial change has occurred in 

the circumstances of the child or of one or both parents and a 

modification is necessary to serve the best interests of the child.

8 Jared M.’s assignments of error improperly focus on the circuit court. See

Carr at 475, 607 S.E.2d at 804, syl. pt. (“In reviewing a final order entered by a circuit 

court judge upon a review of, or upon a refusal to review, a final order of a family court 

judge, we review the findings of fact made by the family court judge under the clearly 

erroneous standard, and the application of law to the facts under an abuse of discretion 

standard. We review questions of law de novo.” (emphasis added)). Accordingly, we have 

considered his assignments of error to address alleged errors at the family court level. 

9 Jared M. also contends that E.M.’s “drastic improvement in her medical 

condition” and her changed “needs” operate “in conjunction with her advancement in age 

and maturity” to compose a substantial change in circumstances. Jared M. did not

specifically cite E.M.’s improved medical condition as a distinct basis for relief in his 

petition before the family court. Nevertheless, because E.M.’s medical condition provides 

inseparable context for the parenting plan, and Jared M. requested modification of the 

parenting plan “due to the needs of the child due to her age and maturity[,]” (emphasis 

added), we deem it appropriate to consider E.M.’s medical condition in connection with 

Jared M.’s other alleged changes in circumstances. 
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W. Va. Code § 48-9-401(a) (eff. 2001) (emphasis added). Thus, the statute establishes 

three criteria for change-in-circumstances modifications. First, the facts relevant to the 

change in circumstances must not have been “known” or “anticipated” in the order that 

established the parenting plan. Ibid. Second, the change in circumstances, whether “of the 

child or of one or both parents[,]” must be “substantial[.]” Ibid. Third, the modification 

must be “necessary to serve the best interests of the child.” Ibid.

B. Changes Not Anticipated in the Parenting Plan. 

Jared M.’s petition to the family court identified his own job change, Molly 

A.’s entry to the workforce, and E.M.’s increased age and enrollment in kindergarten as 

changed circumstances, yet the family court order only addressed whether Molly A.’s new 

employment was anticipated.10 On this point, the family court found that “[i]t was 

anticipated that . . . [Molly A.] would begin to work outside of the home in the future 

because she would need to support herself and the child.” (Emphasis added.) According 

to the family court, Jared M. and Molly A.’s father “could not be expected” to “support 

[her] the rest of her life.” 

Regardless of whether these assumptions about Molly A.’s eventual need for 

employment ultimately proved to be correct, such assumptions were not addressed in the 

original parenting plan. “[U]nder the plain meaning of the statute, the relevant question is 

not whether a particular change in circumstance could have been anticipated, but whether 

10 The family court appears to have determined that no analysis was 

necessary because Jared M.’s job change and E.M.’s increased age were not “significant[.]”
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the parenting plan actually did anticipate, and provide accommodation for, the particular 

change.” Skidmore v. Rogers, 229 W. Va. 13, 21, 725 S.E.2d 182, 190 (2011). “The phrase 

‘not anticipated therein’ does not mean that the change in circumstance could not have 

been anticipated generally, but rather that the parenting plan order does not make 

provisions for such a change.” Ibid. Indeed, we have stated that “[w]hether . . . a change 

in circumstance could have been anticipated when the original parenting plan order was 

entered is of no consequence.” Ibid.

In this case, the parenting plan sought to be modified makes no provision for 

the changes in circumstances identified by Jared M. It does not say, for example, what 

happens if Jared M. acquires a new job that affords him more (or less) flexibility to care 

for E.M. Nor does it say what happens if Molly A. begins working outside the home. The 

parenting plan is silent on these matters despite allocating to Molly A. primary 

responsibility for the “coordination and scheduling of the child’s weekly therapies.” 

(Emphasis added.) Similarly, the parenting plan does suggest that adjustments will occur 

at any stage of E.M.’s life.

11 Accordingly, we find that the parenting plan did not provide 

11 We note that the parenting plan contains boilerplate language about such 

things as unexpected days home from school, communication regarding educational needs 

and performance, equal access to educational records, and cooperation regarding school 

and social commitments. However, the parenting plan also contains the following detailed 

language, crafted by the parties for their unique circumstances: 

Due to the child’s medical condition, the parent in 

whose physical custody the child is in shall be present at all 

times. The first baby sitter rule shall apply. However, the child 

(continued . . .) 
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for Jared M.’s job change, Molly A.’s entry to the workforce, or E.M.’s increased age and 

maturity. Accordingly, such changes were not “anticipated” in the parenting plan as that 

term is used in W. Va. Code § 48-9-401(a). 

C. Changes Alleged Were Substantial. 

Because we find that these changes were not “anticipated” in the parenting 

plan, the question becomes whether these changes amount to “a substantial change . . . in 

the circumstances of the child or of one or both parents . . . .” Ibid. We find that a 

substantial change in circumstances has occurred. 

Any analysis of the parties’ circumstances must begin with E.M.’s unique 

health conditions and history. When the parties signed the parenting plan in September 

2014, only a year had passed since E.M. had experienced life-altering surgery for a brain 

tumor. In August 2014—the month before the parties signed the parenting plan—E.M.’s 

brain tumor had returned, and a radioactive implant had been utilized. In the years since 

then, however, E.M.’s brain tumor has not recurred. Though she remains “medically 

may be left in the physical care and custody of the child’s 

maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, or stepgrandmother . . . , without notice to the other party. The other 

party must be contacted to care for the child if either parent will 

be absent from the child for a period of more than four (4) 

hours, unless the child is left in the physical care and custody 

of the child’s maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother or 

step-grandmother. The parties expressly agree that no other 

person shall provide care for the child, other than her 

grandmothers, without the approval of the other parent. 

(Emphasis added.)
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fragile” and requires attentive and informed caregivers, in the words of her doctor, she 

“does well and looks completely normal when she is healthy, which she usually is[.]” 

(Emphasis added.) As a result, E.M. is able to participate in ordinary childhood activities 

like boating and swimming and going to school, the beach, or a football game. 

E.M.’s medical history lends particular significance to the fact that E.M. was 

less than three years old when the parties agreed to the parenting plan. As we have 

previously observed, “children under the age of three years who are more susceptible to 

illness, need consistent close interaction with fully committed adults . . . .” Syl. Pt. 1, in 

part, In re R. J. M., 164 W. Va. 496, 266 S.E.2d 114 (1980). Close interaction and full 

commitment were particularly vital for E.M. because her medical conditions required 

careful monitoring and because, as a two-year-old, she would not likely have had the verbal 

skills, or perhaps even the self-awareness, to communicate how she was feeling—at least 

not to the same degree as a school-aged child. Though only four years had passed between 

the 2014 signing of the parenting plan and the 2018 evidentiary hearing before the family 

court, those were consequential years for E.M. She began those four years as a toddler and 

emerged from them as a first-grader. Certainly, “the advance in a child’s age will [not] 

necessarily constitute a basis for a modification of a parenting plan order in all cases.” 

Skidmore at 22 n.3, 725 S.E.2d at 191 n.3. This “is a case specific question . . . .” Ibid. 

However, we find that on these facts, and for this child, four years of time and childhood 

development, combined with the improvement in her medical condition, represented “a 

substantial change . . . in the circumstances of the child” for purposes of West Virginia 
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Code § 48-9-401(a) and that the family court committed clear error when it determined 

otherwise.

For similar reasons, we believe that Molly A.’s transition from stay-at-home

mother to an employee who travels out-of-town to work, and occasionally for work, also 

represents a substantial change in circumstances. In 2014, E.M.’s tender age and fragile 

health made it logical for the parties to allocate the vast majority of parenting time to the 

parent who could devote her full time and attention to the child and to severely limit the 

identity of persons who could care for the child in either parent’s absence. Plainly, this 

arrangement was in E.M.’s best interest. According to E.M.’s doctor, Molly A. is

an extremely careful and conscientious mother, who is attuned 

to the needs of her child, and is able to detect even subtle 

changes in her behavior, which may herald an impending 

illness. Thanks to the constant interaction with [E.M.] for the 

last few years, and the close attention she has paid to [E.M.]’s

behavior and reactions to sickness, Ms. [A.] has developed the 

expertise and the unique ability to recognize [E.M.]’s clinical 

deterioration at a very early stage of an illness, which has been 

and is an invaluable asset in the care of her daughter.

Molly A.’s special competence as a caregiver, while extremely important to 

the well-being of E.M., became less relevant when E.M. began school and Molly A. 

accepted employment at her father’s company. Now, instead of spending her day caring 

for E.M., Molly A. commutes to work from Morgantown to Bridgeport and attends to 

matters relevant to her job. On at least one occasion, she has even traveled overseas for 

her work. Thus, while the evidence reflects that Molly A. gives E.M. significant care and 

attention, E.M. no longer receives her mother’s care on a full-time basis in the same manner 
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that she did before E.M. started school and Molly A. began working full-time. Indeed, 

such close attention from her mother (or a grandmother) no longer seems necessary to the 

same degree due to the fact that E.M. now attends school and sometimes remains at school 

for an extra hour of the day in an after-school program.12 Conversely, the evidence 

reflected that Jared M.’s work schedule changed in a manner that allowed him more 

flexibility. When the parenting plan was signed, Jared M. worked three or four days per 

week in the office from approximately 8:00 a.m. until approximately 5:00 p.m. Now, 

though he continues to work full time and still goes into the office, he testified that his 

hours are more flexible. Indeed, his boss testified that Jared M. sets his own schedule. 

Additionally, the company Jared M. works for moved its headquarters to Morgantown in 

April 2018, which allows Jared M. to be in the vicinity of E.M.’s school, even when he is 

at the office. This change in circumstances related to Molly A.’s work schedule, combined 

with a change in the job duties and work schedule of Jared M., represent a significant 

change in circumstances. 

Based upon on these facts and for this child, the positive and encouraging 

improvement to E.M.’s health and her resulting ability to attend school, combined with the 

12 Our discussion of this change in circumstances should not in any way be read as 

a negative reflection on Molly A.’s decision to work outside the home, nor are we 

suggesting that E.M.’s school attendance or participation in an after-school program is

somehow unreasonable. See W. Va. Code § 48-9-401(c) (“Unless the parents have agreed 

otherwise, the following circumstances do not justify a significant modification of a 

parenting plan except where harm to the child is shown: . . . [c]hoice of reasonable 

caretaking arrangements for the child by a legal parent, including the child’s placement in 

day care.” (emphasis added)). 
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modifications in work schedules of both Molly A. and Jared M., constitute a substantial 

change in circumstances. The family court committed clear error when it found to the 

contrary. 

D. Best Interests of the Child and Counsel Fees. 

The third question under W. Va. Code § 48-9-401(a) is whether “a 

modification is necessary to serve the best interests of the child.” The family court never 

reached this stage of the analysis because it found no substantial change in circumstances.13 

Indeed, the family court awarded counsel fees to Molly A. because it found that the absence 

of a substantial change in circumstances “should have been clear to” Jared M. Because we 

find that a substantial change in circumstances has occurred, we also find that the family 

court erred both by failing to decide whether further modification of the parenting plan was

necessary for the child’s best interests and by awarding counsel fees to Molly A. 

Accordingly, upon remand of this matter to the circuit court, we direct the circuit court to 

conduct an analysis of whether the substantial change of circumstances present in this case 

renders a modification of the parenting plan necessary to serve the best interests of E.M., 

and to make appropriate findings regarding such analysis. 

13 As Molly A. points out, the family court made some minor modifications 

to the parenting plan and found that the parenting plan, “as modified above, is in the best 

interests of the child.” Those modifications, however, were made pursuant to West 

Virginia Code § 48-9-402(b)(2) (eff. 2001) (authorizing “a minor modification” without 

showing changed circumstances). On appeal, Jared M. challenges the family court’s 

refusal to award a change-in-circumstances modification under West Virginia Code § 48-

9-401(a), which imposes its own best-interests analysis. 
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IV. CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing, we reverse the circuit court’s February 26, 2021 

order affirming the family court, and we remand this case to the family court for further 

proceedings consistent with this opinion. 

Reversed and remanded.