Baird v. Baird

COVINGTON, Judge.

Lorraine E. Baird appeals from an order of the trial court’s amendment of a decree of dissolution of marriage through which Patrick C. Baird was authorized to claim two of the parties’ three minor children as dependents for income tax purposes. The judgment amending the decree of dissolution is reversed and remanded.

On May 12, 1988, the trial court entered a decree of dissolution of marriage. Prior to the hearing on that date, the parties entered into a written separation agreement which, among other provisions, divided the marital property, awarded custody of the three minor…