In Re the Marriage of Decker

How courts have described this case

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• commenting that the type of relationship a parent establishes with an in-home companion might be “an indication of where that parent’s priority for his or her child[ ] is in his or her life”
• deferring to district court when valuations were accompanied by “supporting credibility findings or corroborating evidence.”
• finding “the numerous charges [against the mother’s] companion . . . most of which are three to five years old” did “not preclude [the mother] from receiving primary care”
• observing if a parent establishes a home with another adult, “that adult’s background and his or her relationship with the children becomes a significant factor in a custody dispute”
• noting “if a parent seeks to establish a home with another adult, that adult’s background and his or her relationship with the children becomes a significant factor in a custody dispute”
• in a dissolution action, considering the best interest of the children and placing the children with the mother

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).