Court Opinion

ID: 9559791
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:35:42.815822+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:44.450623
License: Public Domain

Olson, J.
(dissenting in part and concurring in part)— When one parent desires to alienate the affections of children from their other parent, as does the mother in this case, I doubt her propriety as their custodian. The provisions of this decree result in divided custody, and the opinion of the majority seems to recognize that the hostile parties will abuse this situation by trying to counteract each other’s respective efforts to alienate and gain their children’s affections. It cannot serve the welfare of the children to be in a cross fire of parental spite.
The decree should be modified to prevent this divided custody, except for reasonable visitation, and to include a strict admonition to both of these parents, and particularly to the mother, to stop this and any other conduct which will be injurious and detrimental to the children.