Carrillo v. Morales Ibarra

This appeal concerns custody of a child born in 2009 to parents who were not married. Appellant Roberto E. Carrillo appeals the January 2018 order of the Jefferson County Circuit Court that denied his request for joint custody of his son and that granted custody to the child's mother, appellee Nancy Morales Ibarra. Roberto argues that the circuit court failed to give "due consideration" to Arkansas's statutory preference for joint custody and therefore erred in rejecting joint custody. We affirm.

Child-custody cases are reviewed de novo on appeal, but we will not reverse a circuit court's…