Crawford v. Crawford

HOLMES, Judge.

This is an appeal by the appellant-husband from a decree of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County.

The appellee-wife initiated the proceedings below by filing with the circuit court a petition to modify a previous decree of that court. Specifically, the wife asked for an increase in child support payments. The husband filed an answer to the wife’s petition and additionally filed with the circuit court a petition seeking custody of the minor children.

After a hearing ore tenus, the trial court found that the children should remain with the mother; that the child support payments…