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MELTON v. MELTON

No. 85-236.

486 So.2d 279 (1986)

Andrew T. MELTON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lawanna H. MELTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Davis, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

David Sheffield, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LABORDE and YELVERTON, JJ., and FONTENOT, J. Pro Tem.

YELVERTON, Judge.

Lawanna H. Melton appeals a judgment changing her sole custody of her two children to an award of joint custody. She contests both the joint custody award itself, and the plan it ordered implemented. Finding no abuse of the trial court's discretion, we affirm.

Married in 1971 and divorced in 1983, Andrew T. Melton and Lawanna H. Melton had two children, Shelley, born in 1977, and Alex, born in 1982. An Oklahoma court at the divorce awarded...

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