Lycans v. Lycans (In re Lycans)

PITTMAN, Judge.

Tiara Brooke Lycans ("the mother"), the plaintiff in a divorce action pending in the DeKalb Circuit Court ("the divorce action"), petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial judge, Shaunathan C. Bell, to recuse himself from presiding over that action. For the reasons discussed below, we deny the petition.

Before filing her mandamus petition, the mother filed two motions in the trial court asking Judge Bell to recuse himself; Judge Bell denied both motions. Judge Bell entered his written order denying the last of those motions on March 9, 2017; the mother then filed her…