Nielsen v. Nielsen

While I generally concur with the result reached by the majority in the instant case, I must dissent from that portion of the opinion which holds that a court may not properly deprive a parent of the custody of a minor child “unless it is affirmatively shown that such parent is unfit to perform the duties imposed by the relationship, or has forfeited that right,” ante p. 149, _ N.W.2d _(emphasis added), and from that portion of the opinion which recites that “the right of a parent to the custody of his minor child is not lightly to be set aside in favor of more distant relatives or unrelated…