Cumberland Regional High School District Board of Education v. Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education

OPINION

BARRY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute between two New Jersey school districts over whether they must share the costs associated with providing a free public education to a disabled child whose divorced parents share joint legal and physical custody. An administrative law judge (“ALJ”) determined that the districts must share the financial burden and the District Court affirmed. We, too, will affirm.

I

L.G. is a now 25 year-old woman who suffers from multiple disabling conditions, including mental retardation, myasthenia gravis, impulse control disorder, an unspecified…