Facts: Parents were divorced and Father was alternate residential parent. Father filed a petition to modify custody based upon the criminal indictment of Mother’s husband,…
Facts: Parties divorced after 31 year marriage. Wife received alimony of $5000/month for the first year, $4500/month for the second year, and $4000/month thereafter. Husband…
Facts: Parents were divorced with Mother named the primary residential parent of the parties’ Child. The Parenting Plan provided as follows: The parties shall abstain…
Facts: Upon divorce, Mother was named primary residential parent for Child. Several years later, Father filed petition to change custody. The trial court found Father…
Facts: Unmarried parents entered into agreed parenting plan designating Mother as primary residential parent and establishing parenting time for Father. Father filed a petition to…
Facts: Upon divorce, Mother was named primary residential parent of parties’ minor children. Father had regular parenting time on alternating weekends, every Tuesday, and the…
Facts: As part of his divorce settlement, Father agreed to pay for Children’s college expenses. Son went to DePaul University in Chicago. Daughter declined a…
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…