Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-04-07 05:05:28.235603+00
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                  revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.

                           STATE OF MICHIGAN

                            COURT OF APPEALS

PAMELA JOY LEE JOHNSON,                                                UNPUBLISHED
                                                                       April 6, 2023
               Plaintiff-Appellant,

v                                                                      No. 361277
                                                                       Clinton Circuit Court
EDGAR JOHNSON III,                                                     LC No. 10-022282-DM

               Defendant-Appellee.

Before: GADOLA, P.J., and GARRETT and FEENEY, JJ.

FEENEY, J. (concurring)

        I concur with the majority opinion but write separately to suggest that the trial court should
take proactive steps while waiting to conduct the hearing on remand. For example, the trial court
could order, pending the hearing, that plaintiff shall provide defendant and the trial court, within
7 days, the following information: her home address, the children’s address, her phone numbers
and email addresses, the children’s phone numbers and email addresses, the children’s school
names and phone numbers as well as their doctors’ and counselors’ phone numbers, and addresses.
Additionally, the trial court could order that defendant shall have parenting time via any means
possible as often as possible pending the hearing on remand and shall have access to school,
medical, and counseling records, and plaintiff shall ensure that defendant is listed as a parent
contact with each school, doctor and counselor. Plaintiff’s decision to move out of state and cut
off the children’s contact with defendant should not be tolerated or perpetuated. Noticeably absent
from the lower court record are any motions by plaintiff to terminate or limit defendant’s parenting
time but through her inaction and geographic relocation, she has achieved that objective. If
plaintiff refuses or fails to follow through with any orders that the trial court chooses to enter
pending the hearing, the trial court will most likely reflect plaintiff’s failures in its evaluation of
the best interest factors, MCL 722.23.

                                                               /s/ Kathleen A. Feeney

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