Marriage of Stubbs CA6

I. BACKGROUND

In April 2022, the trial court entered judgment on mother’s petition for dissolution and the parties’ marital settlement agreement. In the settlement, the parties agreed to joint legal and physical custody of their minor children. The agreement also specified the children’s extracurricular activities through 2022, but for 2023 and onward provided that neither parent would schedule extracurricular activities during the other parent’s scheduled parenting time without the other parent’s written consent. The agreement left in place a “2/2/3” parenting schedule, by which neither parent had care of the children on the same weekdays each week or every weekend. Disputes over extracurricular activities reached the trial court in fall 2022, and the court initially refused to intervene, explaining that the parties’ “different ideas of what [extracurricular activities] they would like the children to participate in” did not constitute a “significant change of circumstances” warranting modification. In December 2022, the court responded to continued complaints on this issue (among others) by agreeing with mother that it could resolve disputes over the children’s…