A-24-0426, Lisa M. Keogh (Appellant) v. Michael K. Cook (Appellee)
Buffalo County, District Judge John H. Marsh
Attorney for Appellant: Bergan E. Schumacher (Bruner Frank Schumacher Husak Simpson, LLC)
Attorney for Appellee: Shane M. Cochran (Cochran Law, PC, LLO)
Civil Action: Paternity and Child Support
Action taken by Trial Court: Following a trial, the district court awarded Keogh sole physical custody of the parties’ son, born in July 2022, subject to parenting time by Cook of alternating weekends, along with summer and holiday time. In the decree and parenting plan, the district court determined that beginning September 1, 2027 (when the child purportedly would begin school), the parenting time would switch to alternating weeks and the child support would be changed using a joint custody calculation.
Assignments of Error on Appeal: Keogh assigns that the district court erred by (1) entering an order that is speculative and adverse to the minor child’s best interests; (2) granting Cook joint custody starting September 1, 2027; and (3) determining that child support should change to a joint custody calculation starting September 1, 2027. Cook cross-appeals, assigning error to the district court’s failure to award joint custody and use the joint custody child support calculation at the time of the decree.