When a spouse pushes you to sign a lopsided divorce agreement, sometimes with threats attached, it can feel like you have no choice. You do. This post covers how Nebraska courts review settlement agreements, what protection orders may be available under Nebraska's Protection Orders Act, how filing can bring structure to a stalled negotiation, and what to gather before you respond to a settlement demand.

Alternating weekends and a midweek evening work for many Nebraska families, but not for a pilot, a rail crew member, a farm family in harvest, an Offutt airman, or parents who split the year between two homes. This post explains what the Nebraska Parenting Act requires in every plan, how multiple residences interact with school enrollment and interstate custody jurisdiction, how to draft travel and passport terms responsibly, and how a plan can be built around a variable work schedule while still being enforceable.

A Nebraska court can find both parents fit and still place primary physical custody with one of them. In a September 2026 memorandum opinion, the Nebraska Court of Appeals affirmed exactly that result where the parents lived about an hour apart and the child had significant school and therapy needs. This article explains what the decision does and does not mean, how Nebraska's best-interests statute changed in July 2026, why temporary orders do not control the final decree, and what the same opinion says about time-limited alimony for a long-term homemaker.

School-year parenting plan problems tend to look the same: late exchanges, missed weekends, absences on one parent's nights, decisions made without you. Nebraska courts want proof that fits the procedure you choose, whether that is contempt, statutory parenting-time enforcement, or modification. This guide explains what "willful" means, how Nebraska's school-records statute works and where it stops, how to document exchanges without crossing into self-help, and what to expect from mediation and hearings in Lancaster, Douglas, Sarpy, and surrounding counties.

Parents often hear that a child can "choose" at 12, 14, or 16. Nebraska law says otherwise. There is no age at which a child decides custody or school placement; instead, a court may consider a child's wishes as one part of a best-interests analysis when the child has sufficient comprehension and sound reasoning. This post explains how Nebraska courts receive a child's views, why school choice follows its own legal-custody rule, what a modification request actually requires, and how to keep your child out of the middle.

Before filing for divorce in Nebraska, smart financial preparation means documenting records, preserving ordinary expenses, avoiding risky self-help transfers, and getting advice before moving significant money or property. This guide explains how Nebraska courts generally approach marital and nonmarital property, dissipation, premarital real estate under Stava, retirement division, temporary orders, child support, filing costs, and Parenting Act requirements.