Swallows v. Swallows

PHILLIP R. GARRISON, Presiding Judge.

Sarah Swallows (“Mother”) appeals from a judgment modifying an earlier decree that dissolved her marriage to Jeremy Ryan Swallows (“Father”) and awarded them joint legal custody of their daughter H.G.S. (“the child”). We reverse the judgment because of the lack of statutorily required findings.

In the dissolution decree, entered on August 21, 2002, the court awarded the parties joint legal custody of the child, born January 3, 2002, with Mother to have primary physical custody, and Father to have specific visitation.1 Father was allowed supervised…