Dellinger v. Dellinger

Hunstein, Justice.

This appeal challenges the validity of a self-executing change of visitation provision in a divorce decree. Appellant Sonja Dellinger, a life-long resident of Alabama, filed a divorce petition to end her nine-year marriage to appellee Terry Dellinger in February 2003, six months after the parties moved to Georgia. Appellant sought primary physical custody with joint legal custody of the parties’ two children. At the time of the August 2003 hearing on the divorce petition, the older child was six years old and had just entered first grade while the younger child was three…