Freshman v. Pennington

At trial on the appellees’ petition to obtain custody of their deceased daughter’s minor child from the appellant, Glenn Freshman, the child’s natural father, the court granted the father’s motion for involuntary dismissal at the conclusion of the appellees’ case. The problem here is that the court did not merely deny the requested change of custody. It also ordered a substantial increase in the appellees’ visita-tion rights and more stringent drug testing requirements on the father, based on the court’s factual finding from the evidence that such was in the child’s best interest.

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