Nebraska: Legislators consider equal parenting bill

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'LINCOLN — Joe Trader became a father and an activist on the same day.

After his daughter was born in 2010, Trader’s girlfriend announced she wanted to break up. Determined to play a role in his daughter’s life, the Omaha man filed legal papers seeking custody.

An Iraq War veteran who held down two jobs while obtaining a business degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Trader argued for joint legal custody and equal parenting time. He got neither.

So he started a fathers’ rights page on Facebook that has since obtained nearly 900 “likes.” He also helped get roughly 150 people to show up at the Nebraska Legislature this year in support of two bills intended to make equal parenting time the majority, rather than the minority.'