Bell v. Taylor

ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from a final order granting joint legal custody of a child to the father and the maternal grandmother, but primary physical custody to the grandmother. We reverse.

The minor child, D. B., was born August 19, 2008, to two unmarried parents, David Bell, Jr., and Kristy Taylor. In 2011 both parents consented to the maternal grandmother, Misty Taylor, being the temporary guardian, and the grandmother has reared the child since then. Bell, who was 20 when D. B. was born, had little to no role in the child’s life for the first few years. He acknowledged that…