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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Riedmann finds the district court properly reinstated this child custody case, awarding the never-married parents joint legal and physical custody. The father spent several nights at a time at the mother’s house, operating as a family even after the couple’s relationship dissolved. After the father began dating another woman, the mother would not let him visit and she later moved to Nevada for a new job. Litigation became very complex after the father filed to establish custody and parenting time, and the case was eventually dismissed due to lack of prosecution. After the father’s motion to reinstate, the court determined that the mother failed to show the Nevada job constituted an improvement in employment. The court made findings that the father testified in a credible manner, but the mother did not, inaccurately claiming the father abandoned the child. Though the case had been dismissed when the mother left for Nevada, it was likely to be reinstated. The court’s statement regarding such is not enough to overcome the burden on a party seeking to disqualify a judge for alleged bias. Affirmed.