Lord v. Lord

YATES, Presiding Judge.

Forrest Jay Lord (“the father”) and Wendy Kaye Lord (“the mother”) married on April 26, 1990. The parties had two children, one born in October 1989 and the other born in July 1993. In August 1997, the father sued the mother for a divorce, alleging that she had abandoned the family when she failed to return to the parties’ home following a trip to Maine in July 1997. The father alleged, in an affidavit filed along with the divorce petition, that the mother did, in fact, return on one occasion wherein she attempted, in the middle of the night, to forcibly remove the…