Francis v. Wieland

Ms. Christina Francis, Mother of the 11-year-old child subject to the motion to modify custody at the core of this dispute, appeals a circuit court judgment granting joint legal and joint physical custody to her and Mr. Daniel Wieland, the child’s biological Father, and otherwise establishing a parenting plan and ordering child support, and requiring the parties to pay their own counsel fees. She contends that joint legal custody is not justified in light of the court’s finding that the parents’ relationship is toxic, the court did not make appropriate findings of fact and failed to find that…