S.D.F. v. A.K.

THOMPSON, Judge.

S.D.F. (“the mother”) appeals a judgment awarding custody of her child, A.Q.K. (“the child”), to his father, A.K. (“the father”).

The parties were never married; the child was born in 1995. After the child’s birth, the trial court entered a judgment that established the father’s paternity and ordered him to pay child support. Beginning in 1998, the father began filing a series of complaints against the mother with the Department of Human Resources (“DHR”), alleging that the mother neglected the child. DHR investigated those complaints and determined that they were unfounded.

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