Mapps v. Wolff

GARRETT, Judge.

Appellant, the mother and personal representative of her deceased seven month old daughter, seeks review of certain evi-dentiary rulings made in the medical malpractice trial below.

During the trial, appellant’s former husband was questioned about their divorce and his remarriage. The husband filed for divorce about four months after their daughter’s death. The jury heard that the husband’s petition for dissolution contained allegations that he should have custody of their surviving child because appellant was “mentally unstable” and not a fit and proper mother.

Evidence of a…