Opinion ID: 874203
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The Court Declines to Review the Remainder of Sanders' Arguments.

Text: Similarly, Sanders' arguments that (1) it is unconstitutional to award sole custody to Woods; (2) investigating only Woods' home was an equal-protection violation; (3) the court should have appointed a guardian ad litem; (3) Sanders' current husband (Pollack) was falsely arrested and falsely imprisoned; (4) Sanders was forced to confess at trial; and (5) Sanders' Fourth Amendment rights were violated by being forced to face her husband at trial; contain no citations to the record or to relevant legal authority, were not raised at trial, and are not the subject of this appeal of the modification order. [7] While Sanders argues several times in her briefs that her son has been unconstitutionally taken from her, she fails to cite legal authority stating that an award of full custody to another parent involves a constitutional deprivation. An award of full custody to another parent is not a termination of parental rights and does not implicate the constitutional concerns that go along with it. Cf. Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 768, 102 S.Ct. 1388, 1402, 71 L.Ed.2d 599 (1982) (setting a clear and convincing evidence standard for a termination of parental rights). This Court acknowledges that there may be an argument that the custody award in this case acted as a de facto termination of parental rights by failing to make a provision for visitation to Sanders. See, e.g., In re SRB-M, 201 P.3d 1115, 1120 (Wyo.2009) (stating that a de facto termination of parental rights exists when court action creates a final and complete severance of the child from the parent and removes the entire bundle of parental rights). However, Sanders did not raise this argument in her briefs and did not provide any support for it. Therefore she has waived it on appeal and this Court declines to review it. Wheeler, 147 Idaho at 266, 207 P.3d at 997. Sanders' other arguments similarly lack support in the record or in legal authority. This Court will not consider issues cited on appeal that are not supported by propositions of law, authority or argument. Bingham v. Montane Res. Assocs., 133 Idaho 420, 427, 987 P.2d 1035, 1042 (1999). Therefore, this Court declines to review these arguments. Therefore, because Sanders has not adequately supported her assertions on appeal with citations to facts in the record or relevant legal authority, and because she never objected below, this Court will not review these issues. Thus, the decision of the magistrate is affirmed on these grounds. In addition, the magistrate did not abuse its discretion. As stated above, a magistrate does not abuse its discretion in awarding custody to one parent so long as it (1) correctly perceived the issue as one of discretion; (2) acted within the outer boundaries of its discretion and consistently with the legal standards applicable to the choices before it; and (3) reached its decision by an exercise of reason. Hopper, 144 Idaho at 626, 167 P.3d at 763. This Court will affirm the decision of a magistrate so long as there was substantial competent evidence to support the decision, even if conflicting evidence was presented. Nelson, 144 Idaho at 713, 170 P.3d at 378. Here, there was no evidence at all to support Sanders' allegations. Further, the court had substantial competent evidence to award full custody of C.W. to Woods based on Woods' trial testimony. Thus, the magistrate did not abuse its discretion and we affirm its decision.