Wisconsin Child Custody Factors

1. Wishes of the child’s parent or parents, as shown by any stipulation between the parties, any proposed parenting plan or any legal custody or physical placement proposal submitted to the court at trial.
2. Wishes of the child, which may be communicated by the child or through the child’s guardian ad litem or other appropriate professional.
3. Interaction and interrelationship of the child with his or her parent or parents, siblings, and any other person who may significantly affect the child’s best interest.
4. Amount and quality of time that each parent has spent with the child in the past, any necessary changes to the parents custodial roles and any reasonable life-style changes that a parent proposes to make to be able to spend time with the child in the future.
5. Child’s adjustment to the home, school, religion and community.
6. Age of the child and the child’s developmental and educational needs at different ages.
7. Mental and physical health of the parties, the minor children and other persons living in a proposed custodial household.
8. Need for regularly occurring and meaningful periods of physical placement to provide predictability and stability for the child.
9. Availability of public or private child care services.
10. Cooperation and communication between the parties and whether either party unreasonably refuses to cooperate or communicate with the other party.
11. Whether each party can support the other party’s relationship with the child. including encouraging and facilitating frequent and continuing contact with the child, or whether one party is likely to unreasonably interfere with the child’s continuing relationship with the other party.
12. Whether there is evidence that a party engaged in abuse of the child.
13. Whether there is evidence of interspousal battery or domestic abuse.
14. Whether either party has or had a significant problem with alcohol or drug abuse.
15. The reports of appropriate professionals if admitted into evidence.
16. Such other factors as the court may in each individual case determine to be relevant.
17. The court may not prefer one parent or potential custodian over the other on the
    basis of the sex or race of the parent or potential custodian.

Wisconsin Statutes Sec. 767.24(5).

Fathers Rights Blog | Child Support State Law List .. Above info from a 2004 legal publication.
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