The court of appeals of Wisconsin, district one affirmed the judgments of the circuit court. The circuit court’s order was consistent with the recommendation of the child’s guardian ad litem to be in the best interest of the child.
Ronald E. Schroeder appealed the order of the circuit court relating to child custody, support modification, access to school records, and waiver of fees. The court concluded the circuit court properly exercised its discretion as to each issue, and was affirmed.
April 2008, Schroeder was sentenced to six years initial confinement and twelve years extended supervision on thirty-one various charges, including two counts of second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious victim, in Waukesha County. June 2008, the state filed a motion to hold open his child support obligation during his imprisonment. In September 2008, he moved to modify the placement order to include supervised visits, every other weekend, for two hours. He also sought to write letters to and receive letters from, A.S. on a regular basis.
The court denied the change in placement he had no insight into the trauma his child would likely experienced by visiting him in prison.
The mother, Christine Reuter petitioned the court to enforce the existing placement order by prohibiting Schroeder from sending any correspondence to A.S., contending that the letters were technically unsupervised.
On August 13, 2009 the circuit court denied Schroeder’s request to change placement. It concluded that it was not in the best interest of the child and that it was impractical in any event because the court-approved visitation supervisor would not be ordered to travel to the correctional facility. They also declined to force Christine Reuter to bear the cost of transporting the child two hundred miles in order to facilitate the visits. They were not denying Schroeder the physical placement that was previously provided, but it was noted that enforcing the order was impractical under the circumstances.
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