Clanton v. Barksdale

THOMAS, Judge.

On November 21, 2012, Harold W. Barksdale (“the father”) filed a petition in the St. Clair Circuit Court (“the trial court”) seeking to modify the visitation and child-support provisions of the judgment divorcing him and Mary Sue Clanton (“the mother”). When the mother did not respond to the father’s petition, the father sought and received an entry of default and an interlocutory default judgment modifying the mother’s visitation on January 16, 2013; the child-support issue, however, was set for a hearing ón May 21, 2013. The mother failed to appear at the hearing on the…