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...appeals from judgments or orders in divorce, alimony, child custody, and other domestic relations cases must be taken by application, and that application must be filed within 30 days of the entry of the...
...preponderates against the findings, we must affirm, absent error of law. T.R.A.P. 13(d).
Husband first argues that Tennessee's divorce and child custody statutes are...argument to rebut the presumption in favor of the validity of Tennessee's divorce and child custody statutes. This issue is without merit.
Husband also argues that the evidence...preponderates against the trial court's findings of fact with respect to the grounds for the divorce and the award of child custody to Wife. Trial courts are vested with...
...order to complete state proceedings for divorce, child custody, and property division).
We affirm the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's decision.
AFFIRMED.
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...issue is whether attorney's fees awarded to a bankrupt's former spouse in a post-divorce child custody proceeding in Arizona is nondischargeable under section 17(a)(7) of the former Bankruptcy Act...(Bkrtcy.E.D.Tenn. 1980) (same).
The appellant, J. C. Catlow, and his wife were divorced in 1975. The divorce decree awarded custody of the minor child to Catlow's wife. In 1977...are unrelated to enforcing spousal support obligations. As the proceeding at issue here occurred two years after his divorce and dealt exclusively with child custody, he contends that the fee award may...
...jurisdiction over a tort action for damages. The exception, as articulated by this Court since
Barber, encompasses only cases involving the issuance of a divorce, alimony, or child custody decree...and expertise. Because this lawsuit in no way seeks a divorce, alimony, or child custody decree, the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the District Court's invocation of the domestic relations...seek divorce, alimony, or child custody, such abstention is inappropriate here, where the status of the domestic relationship has been determined as a matter of state law and, in any event, has no...
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DECIDED SEPTEMBER 8, 1976.
Divorce, etc.; custody of child. Coweta Superior Court. Before Judge Knight....
Teresa Hogan Cothran, appellant, filed suit for divorce and custody of the daughter of the parties. The husband counterclaimed for divorce and child custody. Hearing was held before the trial...procedure for the termination of parental rights. A superior court judge, upon hearing a divorce and child custody case, does not have jurisdiction to terminate parental rights, although he can...
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[1] Divorce — Child Custody — Modification — Continuity — Presumption — In General. There is a strong presumption in favor of...retaining the custodial provisions set forth in a parenting plan.
[2] Divorce — Child Custody — Modification — Changed Circumstances — Burden of Proof. A parent seeking a...the child's best interests.
[3] Divorce — Child Custody — Modification — Statutory Grounds — Compliance — Necessity. Modification of a child custody decree or parenting plan...
...divorce, child custody, and property settlement action in a Texas state court entered against him while he was incarcerated and unable to appear in court. He sought damages and an order voiding the...
...).
The current appeal is one of three that Ysais has recently pursued in this court, all connected with divorce, child-custody, or child-abuse issues. Ysais has been a remarkably prolific...restrictions upon him with respect to further pro se filings with this court. Therefore, in order to proceed pro se in this court in any appeal or original proceeding relating to his divorce, child-custody, or...child-abuse proceedings, Ysais must provide this court with:
1. A list of all appeals or original proceedings filed concerning his divorce, child-custody, or child-abuse...
...jurisdiction in this divorce and child custody case and had absolute immunity from this claim for damages.
Rule 11 of the F.R.Civ.P. was amended in 1983 to emphasize the...
...shown before a court may modify an order regarding child custody; the party seeking modification has the burden of showing such a change in circumstances.
4. DIVORCE — CHILD CUSTODY — JOINT...the parents is lacking; awards of joint custody have been reversed where it was clear that the parties were not working in concert to raise the child.
5. DIVORCE — CHILD CUSTODY — NO...decree.
6. DIVORCE — CHILD CUSTODY — WELFARE AND BEST INTERESTS OF CHILD DETERMINATIVE. — The fact that a parent had been the...
...on appeal the questions of property settlement or alimony.
DIVORCE: Child custody — presumption favoring mother —
DIVORCE: Child custody — ...factors. limitations.
DIVORCE: Child custody — award to father. Trial court's 4 finding in a...the record.
DIVORCE: Child custody — motherhood as a factor — immoral
acts considered with other relevant matters...
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The bankruptcy court concluded that the court-ordered payment of attorneys' fees incurred in post-divorce/child custody litigation should be recognized as child support, and therefore...
...appellant.
W. G. Wiley, Murphy Arnold, for appellee.
1. DIVORCE — CHILD CUSTODY, FULL FAITH AND...the child. 2. DIVORCE — CHILD CUSTODY, NATURE OF PARENT'S RIGHT. — A father's right to the custody of his child is a personal right. 3. DIVORCE — CHILD CUSTODY — FULL FA...— CHILD CUSTODY — FOREIGN DECREE, JURISDICTION OF PERSON AS PREREQUISITE TO FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF. — The full faith and credit clause and the act of Congress passed pursuant to it do not entitle a...
...witnesses and accepted one version of the facts rather than another. 2. Divorce: Child Custody. Child custody in a proceeding to dissolve a marriage is a matter within the trial court's discretion. 3...marital dissolution proceeding is a matter within the trial court's discretion, is reviewed de novo on the record, and will be affirmed on appeal in the absence of abuse of discretion. 5. Divorce: Child Custody: Guardians...within a trial court's discretion. 6. Divorce: Child Custody. When custody of a minor child is an issue in a proceeding to dissolve the marriage of the child's parents, child custody is determined by...
...attorneys' fees awarded to a debtor's former spouse in successfully defending against a post-divorce child custody proceeding in Tennessee are non-dischargeable under...expenses arising from the post-divorce child custody proceeding be declared nondischargeable.
FEDERAL LAW...), 11 U.S.C. § 35(a)(7), the court held that attorney's fees awarded to the bankrupt's former spouse in a post-divorce child custody proceeding in Arizona were nondischargeable...
.... Robert E. Stewart, Guido Stewart, of Danville, for appellee.
1. DIVORCE — Child .... — The paramount and controlling considerations in all custody disputes are the welfare and best interests of the child. p. 48.
2. DIVORCE — Child Custody — Change...initial order that a change of custody is necessary for the welfare of the child. p. 48.
3. DIVORCE — Child Custody — Change of Circumstances — Burden of Proof — Duty of the...
...rehearing and issue the following opinion. Jimmie Anderson retained attorney Walter Snider to represent her in her divorce and child custody action. Due to alleged acts and omissions in the course of...
...1993 they lived in Mississippi with their son. That year the wife filed for divorce in Mississippi, seeking child custody, child support and alimony. Several months later wife and son moved to Georgia...addressing all issues over which it had jurisdiction, including divorce.
2. A review of statutes governing divorce and child custody supports the position that a trial court can grant a ...decline to exercise [child custody jurisdiction] while retaining jurisdiction over the divorce." Finally, the concerns regarding conflicting determinations of child...
...Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 3.08 prohibits the lawyer from acting as both an advocate and a witness in an adjudicatory proceeding. In this divorce and child-custody dispute, the relator husband...hired Mary McKnight to represent him in this divorce and child-custody proceeding. Because he could not afford to pay her fees based on his income as a land surveyor, Bill agreed to partially pay by...