Stolarick v. Novak

WIEAND, Judge:

In this proceeding to modify an agreed custody order for two children, the trial court found that the father, with whom the children had lived after their mother left home in 1985, was an exemplary parent, who adored and cared for the children “on a standard of excellence in a physical, psychological and nurturing sense.” The court nevertheless took the children from their father’s home and awarded custody to their mother because the court disapproved of the father’s fundamentalist Christian beliefs and his enrollment of his children in a Christian school. After careful…