Melton v. Bounds

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

This case involves a petition for modification of child custody.

The parties were divorced in 1986. The divorce decree incorporated provisions of an agreement of the parties. The agreement provided, in pertinent part, that the mother was to have full custody of the parties’ child. The father was granted liberal visitation rights.

In 1988 the father filed a petition for modification requesting that the trial court grant him custody of the child. He averred that the mother was unfit, was cohabiting with a man, habitually used drugs, and that her home…