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the record adequately supports those findings.”

“The trial court has broad discretion to determine what is in the best interests of the child in the area of visitation and its determination will not be overturned absent an abuse of discretion.”

When a district court is deciding a custody dispute, the child’s best interests is the court’s “paramount commitment.” see also Pikula, d at 711 (“The guiding principle in all custody cases is the best interest[s] of the child.”).

“When a district court is deciding a custody dispute, a child’s best interests is the court’s ‘paramount commitment.’” ( (stating that “[t]he guiding principle in all custody cases is the best interest[s] of the child”).

2 “District courts have broad discretion on matters of custody and parenting time.” d 118, 123 (Minn. App. 2009) ( ) (“The district court has broad discretion in determining parenting-time issues and will not be reversed absent an abuse of that discretion.

See, (“As in all matters involving court-established family relationships of children, we begin with reference to our paramount commitment to the best interests of the children.”); State ex rel.

5 In deciding a custody dispute, the child’s best interests are a district court’s “paramount commitment.”

(acknowledging common-law deference to parents in a grandparent-visitation case); Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 6 6 (2000) (plurality opinion) (“[T]he Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and c

A district court has broad discretion to decide questions of parenting time, and we will not reverse a parenting -time decision unless the district court abused its discretion by misapplying the law or by making findings unsupported by the record, Woolsey, d at 506.

“The guiding principle in all custody cases is the best interest of the child,” and a court’s “paramount commitment” is to that best interest

And “[w]hen a district court is deciding a custody dispute, a child’s best interests [are] the court’s paramount commitment.” Thornton v. Bosquez , (d 547, 549 (Minn. 1995) ; and then citing Flint v. Flint, 65 N.W.

This right had to come via statute because “[h]istorically, grandparents had virtually no legal right to maintain a relationship with a grandchild independent of the wishes of the child’s parents.”

See, (considering child’s best interests in grandparent-visitation matter); State ex rel.

(“The trial court has broad discretion to determine what is in the best interests of the child in the area of visitation and its determination will not be overturned absent an abuse of discretion.”).

See, d 547, 549 (Minn. 1995).

d 547, 550 (Minn. 1995).

1(a), 10 1(b), 5 (2019); see also, e.g. , ; review denied (Minn. June 12, 1984).

ANALYSIS When a district court is deciding a custody dispute, a child’s best interests is the court’s “paramount co mmitment.”

We review a district court’s parenting-time decision for abuse of discretion, affirming the court’s factual findings unless they are clearly erroneous

1 (2018) ; Olson v. Olson , , 549 (Minn. 1995) ; Pikula v. Pikula , , 711 (Minn. 1985).

1 (2018); Pikula v. Pikula, 374

See Olson v. Olson , , 550 (Minn. 1995) (noting that the court cannot supply to a statute language that the Legislature omitted).

review denied (Minn. Oct.