Couch v. Couch

Opinion of the Court by

Justice GRAVES.

Appellant, Julie Couch (now Riggs), and Appellee, David Michael Couch, were divorced in 1992 by a decree of dissolution entered in the Hardin Circuit Court. The decree incorporated the parties’ separation agreement wherein they agreed to joint custody of their son, Andrew David Couch born December 27, 1988, but that Appellant would have physical custody and control of the child.

Appellee remarried and moved to Alabama in 1997. In 2002, he filed a motion in the Hardin Circuit Court to modify custody, requesting that the previous joint custody arrangement be…