S.B.U. v. D.G.B.

MURDOCK, Judge.

S.B.U., the father, appeals from a judgment of the Marion Juvenile Court returning custody of his daughter to D.G.B., the mother.

The parties married in July 1997. Their daughter was born in January 1998. The parties were divorced in May 2000. Apparently pursuant to the divorce judgment, which was based on an agreement of the parties, the parties were awarded “joint custody” of their daughter, but the mother was “named the custodial parent” and the father was awarded visitation.1

In mid-December 2003, the mother’s sisters took the daughter from the mother’s home and carried her…