Edwards v. Edwards

I respectfully dissent. The record reflects that the mother’s attorney had not communicated with the mother since the day she had been hired. At trial, the mother’s attorney made no objection to the father’s request for physical custody of the parties’ child and asked only a few questions of the father. Although, as the main opinion notes, it is undisputed that the mother’s attorney was aware of the fact that the father was seeking physical custody of the child during trial, I do not consider that notice to be sufficient as to the mother herself to support the main opinion’s invocation of…