Hunt v. Garcia

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal concerns custody and child-support issues arising from the dissolution of a common-law marriage.

The proceedings giving rise to this appeal began in December 2001, when Roy Dean Hunt (“the father”) filed a complaint for a divorce in which he alleged that he and Melissa Ann Garcia (“the mother”) had entered into a common-law marriage resulting in the birth of one child. The father requested that the trial court award him custody of the parties’ minor child and direct the mother to pay child support.1 In May 2002, the trial court entered a divorce judgment awarding the…