Rolde v. Rolde

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that shared legal custody requires both parents to agree on basic issues in child rearing and to want to cooperate in making decisions for their children
• discussing need for respect and ability to work together in context of joint legal custody
• suggesting joint custody is appropriate where parents are “relatively stable” and “amicable” and agree on basic issues
• parent’s role as “primary nurturing parent” and “primary caretaker” is highly significant in determining the welfare of a child
• judge ruling on custody and visitation has opportunity to observe and appraise both parents; discretionary order awarding sole custody to wife was not “clearly wrong”
• that mother was “primary nurturing parent” and “primary caretaker,” and that children have “strongest bond” with mother, were factors “highly significant for the welfare of the children”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).