Court Opinion

ID: 9715558
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:08:49.057033+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:35.872299
License: Public Domain

PRESIDING JUSTICE CHAPMAN, dissenting: Even though the majority’s result might be the one I would have reached had I been the trial judge, I dissent because my review of the record does not convince me that the trial court’s decision was against the manifest weight of the evidence. As the majority indicates, this is a difficult case that is not made easier by the fact that the parties are possessed of pure motives and are sincerely concerned about their children. I disagree with the majority, not because of the result it reaches, but because in reaching that result, it has substituted its weighing of the evidence on the Eckert factors for that of the trial court.