Sarah B. v. Floyd B.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Appellant Floyd B. appeals from a final order regarding custody of his daughter N.B. Sarah B. and Floyd B. were dating when Sarah became pregnant with N.B. Floyd and Sarah lived together, but never married. When N.B. was approximately one and a half years old, Sarah decided to leave Floyd and move to Colorado with N.B. A month after Sarah and N.B. arrived in Colorado, Sarah filed a petition in the trial court to establish that Floyd was N.B.’s father, and requested that the court determine custody and visitation, and appropriate child support.

After reviewing the report of the court-appointed evaluator and hearing testimony from the parties, the trial court concluded that because N.B. had a more mature and stable relationship with her mother, it would be in N.B.’s best interest to grant Sarah primary physical custody, even though Sarah resided in Colorado.

On appeal, Floyd raises a variety of legal and factual challenges to the trial court’s actions in this case. Floyd asserts that the trial court erred when it did not find Sarah in violation of the standard temporary restraining order (TRO) issued in conjunction with Sarah’s petition to establish a…