Cook v. Cook

This is a child custody modification case.

The father sought to modify the original divorce decree that awarded custody of the parties' minor child to the mother. The father's parents intervened in the suit and petitioned the trial court to award custody to them, the paternal grandparents.

After an ore tenus hearing, the Circuit Court of Jefferson County denied both the father's and the grandparents' petitions to modify and allowed custody to remain with the mother.

The father and the grandparents appeal; however, the father does not favor this court with a brief. The grandparents, through able…