Waybright v. Johnson-Smith

Jesse Lee Waybright appeals a final order which establishes visitation and residential custody of S.L.W., the child he fathered with appellee. Because the trial court erred in excluding certain evidence offered by Waybright and in ordering rotating custody when neither party requested it, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

S.L.W. was born on May 16, 2008, and the appellee, Ya’Lonni Ayeesha Johnson-Smith, does not deny that Waybright is the natural father; the parties to this appeal have never been married. In January 2012, Waybright, pro se, filed a pleading styled “petition to…