Rasp v. Ballard

SAM A BEATTY, Retired Justice.

James V. Rasp and Jayne E. Rasp Ballard were divorced in July 1990. The divorce judgment incorporated a separation agreement between them. The mother was awarded custody of the parties’ daughter, who was then four years old, and the father was awarded specified visitation rights. The father insisted, he says, that the agreement contain a provision specifying that if either party moved away from Mobile County, that party would be responsible for “all transportation costs involved for the regular weekly visitation with the minor child.”

The mother remarried in 1993.…