In Re the Marriage of Berning

How courts have described this case

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• explaining father’s swing schedule “may be untraditional” but was “relatively stable” and provided son with “a substantial amount of time with his father”
• considering the needs of the party making the request, the ability of the other party to pay, and whether the party making the request was obligated to 8 defend the district court’s decision on appeal
• considering the needs of the party making the request, the ability of the other party to pay,” the relative merits of the appeal, and whether the party making the request had to defend the district court’s decision on appeal
• “We also find approximation is mitigated in this case because [the child] has spent a considerable portion of his life in daycare or pre-school.”
• “We consider the needs of the party making the request, the ability of the other party to pay, and whether the party was required to defend the district court’s decision on appeal.”
• vesting court with discretion to award fees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).