Blackman v Barge
Jul 12, 2022OUTCOME: Success in lower court and on appeal
Family Court properly denied, without a hearing, mother’s modification petition seeking sole legal and physical custody. Successfully represented father to deny mothers attempt to modify custody pet ... ition on appeal. .Party seeking change in custody is not automatically entitled to a hearing but must make evidentiary showing. Here, mother failed to make requisite evidentiary showing of a change of circumstances sufficient to warrant hearing with respect to her petition for unsupervised parental access with child.
