Robinson v. Robinson

FRED W. JONES, Jr., Judge.

The mother appealed a judgment awarding sole custody of her four year old daughter to the father. We find the statutory presumption in favor of joint custody has not been rebutted and reverse; render judgment decreeing joint custody; and remand the case with instructions.

The parents were married in 1980 and the child was born in 1981. The couple lived in Coushatta with the father’s parents until their separation in 1983 when the mother and child returned to the mother’s parents in South Carolina. The father filed for legal separation in June 1983, and in uncontested…