Opinion ID: 2204316
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Text: [¶ 3] Father and Mother were married on July 1, 2000, in Cody, Wyoming. In 2003, they had a child. They were divorced by decree entered in April of 2009. In accordance with the parties' agreement, the decree provided that Mother and Father would have joint legal care, custody and control of the child, with each parent having physical custody of the child for one week and visitation the following week. [¶ 4] On June 15, 2009, Mother filed a petition for modification of custody in which she alleged that substantial changes in circumstances had occurred warranting modification of the decree, including that Father had berated and harassed her in front of the child, Father had been stalking her to the point that she had filed for a protective order and the shared physical custody arrangement was not in the child's best interest. Mother also filed a motion seeking temporary custody of the child pending a decision on her modification petition. The following day, on June 16, 2009, the district court set the temporary custody motion for hearing on June 19, 2009. [¶ 5] On June 18, 2009, Father filed a motion to continue the temporary custody hearing, asserting insufficient time to prepare his case. The district court granted the motion and continued the hearing until July 10, 2009. On the day the hearing was to be held, Father filed a response to Mother's motion for temporary custody in which he alleged that no material change in circumstances had occurred since entry of the original decree and it was not in the child's best interest to award temporary custody to Mother. He also filed a response to Mother's custody modification petition in which he denied berating or harassing her in front of the child and denied stalking her but admitted the shared custody arrangement was not in the child's best interest. [¶ 6] For reasons that do not appear in the record, no hearing was held on July 10, 2009. By order dated July 15, 2009, the district court rescheduled the temporary custody hearing for July 20, 2009. A hearing was held on July 20, however, the matter heard was Mother's petition for custody modification, not the temporary custody motion. After two days of testimony, the district court issued a decision letter in which it concluded it was in the child's best interest for Father to have primary physical custody. The district court entered an order to that effect and also ordered that Mother was to have visitation with the child every other weekend beginning August 28, 2009, and was to pay Father child support in the amount of $279.00 per month. Mother appealed from the district court's order.