Norwood v. Huntley

This is a child custody case.

The trial court granted the paternal aunt and uncle custody of a ten-year-old child. Additionally, the mother was apparently denied any visitation privileges. The mother appeals, and we affirm in part and reverse in part.

The dispositive issue is whether the trial court abused its discretion in its award of custody and in failing to grant some visitation privileges to the mother.

Viewing the record with the attendant presumptions accorded the trial court’s decree, the following is revealed:

In 1978, the mother shot and killed her husband, the child’s father. She was…