Wheeler v. Parsons

TYSON, Judge.

Scott Parsons ("Defendant") appeals from a Wilkes County District Court order granting the parties joint legal custody of their minor child. Defendant also petitions for a writ of certiorarito review the Wilkes and Guilford County District Court's orders denying his petition to register a foreign custody order. We allow Defendant's petition to issue the writ. We vacate and remand the Wilkes County order.

I. Factual Background

Defendant lived in Tennessee and enlisted to serve in the National Guard in August 2007. He also began dating India Wheeler ("Plaintiff") around that time. In…