S.K.W. v. STATE

How courts have described this case

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• affirming an award of primary custody to the father despite the mother’s status as primary caretaker where other factors weighed by the trial court demonstrated that granting the father custody was in the child’s best interests
• “judge may consider any factors found pertinent to [child’s best] interests in the circumstances [and] judge is to identify and weigh those factors”
• “It goes without saying that we encourage parental agreement in the sensitive area of child custody when it is possible and in the best interests of the child”
• custody to parent willing to respect other parent’s role in child’s life
• no abuse of discretion in award of sole legal and physical custody to father even though mother had obtained several abuse prevention orders against him, where judge determined prior history did not detract from father's current ability to care for children
• no presumption that primary caregiver be awarded custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).