In Re the Marriage of Swenka

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• recognizing the strong public policy of keeping siblings, including half siblings, together following a divorce to provide children the important benefit of maintaining familial ties and lessening the trauma of divorce
• allocating primary physical care to one parent because the parents could “not cooperate and d[id] not respect the parenting or lifestyles of the other”
• allocating primary physical care to one parent because the parents could “not cooperate and d[id] not respect the parenting or lifestyles of the other”
• granting physical care after the parents could not “cooperate and respect each other’s parenting and lifestyles”
• “If the parents of the children are able to cooperate and respect each other’s parenting and lifestyles, a joint care arrangement can work.”
• “An attempt to provide equal physical care may be harmful and disruptive by depriving children of a necessary sense of stability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).