Facts: Parents had equal parenting time with Child. Trial court found “joint custody did not work for the parties and they did not communicate, and…
Facts: During the divorce litigation, Mother temporarily had primary residential custody of Child in Tennessee. Father, a veterinarian in Missouri, had regular visitation. Mother…
According to the Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary, Tennessee trial courts disposed of 298,107 cases from July 2008 through June 2009. Of those, 60,320,…
In order to modify a parenting plan, a parent must first prove a material change of circumstances affecting the child that was not reasonably foreseeable…
The recent post-divorce parenting plan modification opinion in Austin v. Austin is of interest for two reasons: Mother moved away so Father sought to modify…
In the recent opinion Sharp v. Stevenson, we see the three-member Court of Appeals taking the unusual step of splitting 2-1 to reverse the trial…
There are several holdings of interest in the recent Heffington case: In a post-divorce proceeding to modify a parenting plan, the trial court found Mother…
Contempt is the willful failure to obey a court order when one has the ability to do so. There are two types of contempt that…