F&F: State Attorney General Goes to Court Opposing Equal Parenting Law

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'Like a lot of dads, Sanderson wants more and knows his kids need more.  But unlike a lot of dads, he’s not content to go hat in hand to the court to beg for a few more hours or days.  He’s done that plenty of course, but Sanderson doesn’t stop there.  For one thing, he lobbied the state legislature to change custody laws.  That failed as it has in so many other states.
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So Sanderson set his sights a little lower.  He got enough people to sign a petition for a county-wide ballot initiative that was the same as the previous state-wide one.  And, lo and behold, it passed in a landslide!  Walsh County residents voted 66% to 34% in favor of equally shared parenting by fit parents.  In due course, county commissioners voted 4 – 1 to add it to the county ordinances.  In Walsh County, North Dakota, equally shared parenting had become law, thanks to the tireless work of Mitch Sanderson.
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To no one’s surprise, once the laws of Walsh County changed to require equal parenting, Mitch Sanderson went to court and asked the judge for such an order.  My guess is he was the first there on Monday morning after the initiative became law.  But, in an unprecedented move, the State of North Dakota, by and through its attorney general, intervened in Sanderson’s custody case and filed a motion opposing Sanderson’s request for equal parenting.  Mind you, Sanderson’s wife has done no such thing.'