Legal Opinion

In Re the Marriage of Pesanti

Montana Supreme Court

Decided December 9, 2014No. DA 14-0109Published

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker

¶1 Lewis E. Pesanti appeals the Second Judicial District Court’s final decree of dissolution of his marriage with Terra L. Pesanti and its entry of a final parenting plan for their minor children. We address the following issues:

1. Whether the District Court abused its discretion by awarding primary custody of the children to Terra.

2. Whether the District Court abused its discretion with regard to Lewis’s child support obligation.

¶2 We affirm on the first issue and reverse and remand on the second.

PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL BACKGROUND

¶3 Lewis and Terra married in 1995. They had three children…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. In Re the Marriage of TummarelloMontana Supreme Court · 2012
  2. In Re the Marriage of CrillyMontana Supreme Court · 2005
  3. In re the Parenting of N.S.Montana Supreme Court · 2011
  4. Marriage of Jackson v. JacksonMontana Supreme Court · 2008
  5. In Re the Marriage of BankaMontana Supreme Court · 2003

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