D.C. v. D.C.

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

WALLER, Presiding Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. The motion for rehearing is granted. The original opinion is withdrawn and this opinion substituted therefor.

¶ 2. This case involved a contentious post-divorce custody fight centering on the mother’s allegations of sexual abuse of the minor daughter by the father, with the eventual flight by the mother with the two minor children prior to trial.1 After one year of acrimonious litigation, the chancellor granted the father’s amended petition for custody modification and awarded him and the Mississippi Department of Human…