Marriage of Kenney and Saribalis CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

Kenney and Saribalis married in May 2015. The following year, Kenney filed a petition to dissolve the marriage and, in September 2017, the family court issued a judgment of dissolution. The judgment incorporated the parties’ agreement on all disputes between them except for custody and visitation issues regarding their daughter, who was born in September 2015 (daughter). They have been litigating these custody and visitation issues ever since. A. Litigation Over Custody of Daughter In November 2016, the court ordered that Kenney and Saribalis temporarily share joint legal custody of daughter, with Kenney having primary custody and Saribalis having certain supervised visitation rights. In 2017 and 2019, the court issued temporary orders that continued joint legal custody and modified Saribalis’s visitation rights. In 2017, Saribalis appealed one of the family court’s orders. We dismissed the appeal when Saribalis failed to file an opening brief. In 2018, the court ordered a child custody evaluation. The evaluator, Dr. Pickar, recommended that Kenney be given sole legal custody of daughter. After conducting a March 2019 evidentiary hearing, the court ordered joint…