# Shade v. Wright

> Michigan Court of Appeals · December 2, 2010 · 291 Mich. App. 17

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7961003

## Case

- **Full name:** SHADE v. WRIGHT
- **Court:** Michigan Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** December 2, 2010
- **Citations:** 291 Mich. App. 17; 805 N.W.2d 1
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Jansen
- **Judges:** Bandstra, Borrello, Jansen
- **Cited by:** 192 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the “very normal life change” of “growing up” and becoming involved in activities that conflict with the parenting time schedule, “while insufficient to justify a change in custodial environment are precisely the types of considerations that trial courts should ta…
- explaining that a parenting-time decision only requires findings of fact on contested issues, as opposed to a custody determination, which requires findings on all of the best interest factors
- concluding that “[c]ustody decisions require findings under all of the best-interest factors, but parenting time decisions may be made with findings on only the contested issues”
- holding that the definitions of proper cause and change of circumstances as articulated in Vodvarka apply to custody determinations but not to parenting-time determinations
- stating that a change in parenting time did not affect the established custodial environment because it left the parties with the same number of parenting time days

## Opinion text

JANSEN, J.
{concurring in the result only). I concur in the result only.

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