In re the Marriage of Williams and Tibbetts

Citations

• 2018 COA 117
• 428 P.3d 686

Syllabus

In this post-dissolution of marriage action father moved to have the parenting plan terminated to allow the parties' 16–year-old child to determine her own parenting time schedule. A district court magistrate denied father's request, and while the appeal was pending, the child turned 18 years of age. On father's petition for review to the district court, the court adopted the order. Father filed his opening brief the day before the child turned 18. Mother moved to dismiss the appeal, contending that because the child is now an adult, the parenting time issues father raises on appeal cannot be resolved. Once the parties' child turned 18, she attained the right to make her own decisions, including whether to visit her parents, rendering the issues father raises on appeal moot. The appeal was dismissed.