Robison v. Lanford

SOUTHWICK, P.J., for the court:

¶ 1. Carol Lanford sought to modify the custody awarded in an earlier judgment of divorce, which had given her ex-husband primary custody of their child. The chancellor agreed to award her primary custody. The father, Thomas Lee Robison, argues on appeal that the chancellor applied the incorrect legal standard for modification, that no substantive evidence was offered in support of the modification, that inadmissible evidence was considered, and that some statutory defects exist' in the process. We find that the chancellor applied the wrong legal standard. We…