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Judge limits fathers interim visits after relocation; stepmother barred pending DCS conditions
Summary
After a father relocated to Florida without court approval, a chancery judge suspended the existing parenting plan pending a final hearing, limited the father to one weekend per month in Tennessee, and ordered no contact between the children and the fathers partner until recommended DCS steps are completed.
A Dixon County chancery judge on Friday suspended the operation of an existing parenting plan and narrowed a fathers interim parenting time after the father moved to Florida without court authorization and the Department of Childrens Services investigated reports of injuries and anxiety in the children.
The father, who testified he moved for family and employment reasons, told the court he planned a parenting schedule that would give him longer but less frequent time with the children. The mother, Whitney Marcello, opposed out-of-state overnight parenting while the DCS investigation remained unresolved and told the court she had placed both…
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