A two-year-old girl should not be uprooted from the familiar environment of her paternal grandparents’ home merely to satisfy her mother’s custody claim, Orissa high court has ruled, stressing that a child’s welfare must take precedence over competing claims by parents. The habeas corpus petition was filed by Nenelle Beronilla Dayandayan, a Philippine national working in Vietnam, seeking custody of her daughter from her father, Mrutunjaya Kar, and.