Efforts to promote positive mental health and well - being in children, staff and caregivers should be given
equal weight with efforts to reduce problem behaviors and / or social -
emotional distress.
[Appeal of trial court's change of custody granted: To change custody on four factors alone, as enunciated by the trial judge, and give less than
equal weight to the love, affection and
emotional ties the son had for and to his mother, her husband and her other children was found to be an error in law.]»