Micone v. Micone
Annotate this CaseKerstan and Michael Micone divorced in 2009. The parties were awarded joint legal custody of their two minor children, and Kersten received primary physical custody of both children. In 2013, the parties’ daughter, I.M., moved to her grandparents’ house in Reno, where she currently resides. In 2014, Michael sought primary physical custody of I.M. The district court awarded primary physical custody of I.M. to her grandparents. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the district court abused its discretion in awarding the grandparents custody of I.M. because the grandparents were neither parties to nor intervenors in the custody suit, the court failed to notify the Micones that it was considering the grandparents as a custodial option, and the court did not make the requisite findings to overcome the parental preference.
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