Legal Opinion

Law v. Whittet

North Dakota Supreme Court

Decided April 7, 2014No. 20130241PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] Nicholas Law appeals from a district court judgment awarding Law and Danielle Whittet joint residential responsibility for their minor child. We reverse and remand, concluding several of the district court’s findings of fact are clearly erroneous and Law should be awarded primary residential responsibility for the parties’ child.

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[¶ 2] Law and Whittet met in late 2010 and began dating shortly thereafter. Whittet became pregnant, and the child was born in November 2011. A paternity test confirmed that Law was the biological father. Whittet also has two older children.

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Heck v. ReedNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1995
  2. State v. NelsonNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1992
  3. Wessman v. WessmanNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2008
  4. Anderson v. HensrudNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1996
  5. Helbling v. HelblingNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1995

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. O'Hara v. SchneiderNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2017
  2. Rustad v. BaumgartnerNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2018
  3. Dickson v. DicksonNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2018
  4. Mowan v. BergNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2015
  5. Vetter v. VetterNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2020

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