Blender v. Blender

We reverse that part of the final judgment modifying a previously bifurcated portion of the judgment relating to custody and visitation.

The initial partial final judgment, by stipulation, provided for shared parental responsibility and liberal visitation for Appellant. The subsequent judgment modifies the earlier judgment, awards sole custody to Appel-lee, and denies Appellant any contact with his children. It was error to modify the *545initial judgment in the absence of a properly pled petition for modification.

We recognize that an emergency hearing was held during the period between judgments…