Barlow v. Barlow

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

|, Laney Ray Barlow, Jr. appeals the trial court’s award of sole custody of a minor daughter to Sandra Guillot Barlow in response to her request to modify a considered joint-custody decree to supervised physical custody for reduced periods. Mr. *858Barlow did not appear at the hearing. He later filed a motion for new trial contending that the clerk of court failed to give the notice of trial date prescribed by local court rules. The trial court denied the motion. Because we find that actual notice of the trial date remedied the lack of prescribed notice and that the record…