Hicks v. Halsey

OPINION

COMBS, Judge:

April Hicks appeals from the order of the Floyd Family Court that designated Jerri Halsey as the de facto custodian of Hicks’s child and awarded Halsey sole custody. After our review, we affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand.

Hicks’s child (Child) was born on September 25, 2008. In December 2009, Hicks and Child moved in with Halsey, who is Hicks’s sister. On February 13, 2010, Hicks went to Tennessee to meet a man with whom she had become acquainted on the internet. Before leaving, she signed a notarized document which authorized Halsey and Halsey’s ex-husband to seek…