From Friday's decision of the Nebraska Supreme Court in Munsell v. Munsell (opinion by Justice Derek Vaughn):
Jacob and Libby married in 2010 and had two children, one born in 2016 and the second born in 2018. In February 2024, Libby filed a complaint seeking dissolution of the marriage.
The parties stipulated to the division of their property, and they agreed to share joint physical custody of the children under a rotating parenting schedule that gave each parent equal time. Trial was had on the contested issues of legal custody, the children's involvement in the church attended by Jacob (church), and the children's attendance at the church camp during Jacob's parenting time. Jacob appeals the district court's decision on legal custody and church camp attendance.
The trial court concluded that the parents were in sufficient conflict that joint legal custody wasn't feasible, and therefore awarded legal custody to Libby, and the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld this. But the trial court also concluded that Jacob couldn't have the children attend the church camp even during his own parenting time, and on this the state supreme court disagreed:
