Jones v. Wright

RUSSELL, Judge.

This is a child custody case.

Following an ore tenus hearing, the trial court awarded legal and physical custody to the maternal grandmother of the minor child. The mother then filed a motion to set aside judgment based on the trial court’s award of custody to a non-parent absent a finding that the mother was unfit. Subsequently, the trial court entered a new judgment, finding the mother unfit as a result of her willful and intentional act of keeping the minor child out of school, by failing to keep the family home in a clean and sanitary manner, and by exposing the child to…