Equal custody rights

1. Whether a state court's failure to apply the "Appearance of Impropriety" standard established in Rippo v. Baker (2017) represents a structural error that mandates vacatur when a judicial insider is employed as the assistant to the Head Administrative Judge, and who maintains a direct professional and personal relationships with the specific judges overseeing Judicial Assignment and the adjudication of the insider ’ s own family matter ? 2. Whether a procedural two-step custody framework under which a state court first (1 st ) determines if a fit parent has shown ‘ sufficient change ’ to permit amendment, then second (2 nd ) conducts evidentiary fact-finding, in effect forecloses on the court a reasonable opportunity to hear timely evidence of child best interests, and whether that thereby creates a structural fairness issue protected against by the Fourteenth Amendment ? 3. Whether a state ’ s failure to utilize a presumption favoring rebuttable equal custody rights constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of parental liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment ?