Hardy v. Johnson

THOMAS, Judge.

In August 2015, Kerry Hardy ("the father") filed a complaint in the Coffee Circuit Court ("the trial court") to modify the child-custody provisions of a 1998 judgment, as amended, divorcing him from Kimberly Dawn Johnson ("the mother"). The mother moved to dismiss the father's complaint, but her motion was denied; on November 30, 2015, she answered the complaint and filed a counterclaim in which she sought the establishment of a child-support arrearage and a finding of contempt against the father for his failure to pay child support. After a trial held on June 21, 2016, the…