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Wafa Badawi Hindiyeh v. Waleed Fawzi Abed

Tenn. Ct. App.March 6, 2020No. M2018-01581-COA-R3-CV

Case Details

Judge(s)
Judge Richard H. Dinkins
Status
Published
Procedural Posture
appeal

Related Laws

No specific laws identified for this ruling.

Excerpt

This is the second appeal of a parenting plan. In the first appeal, Father successfully challenged the adoption of a plan that allocated him only 80 days parenting time the case was remanded with instructions for the trial court to increase Father's parenting time. Following a hearing, the trial court adopted Father's proposed parenting plan which granted the parties equal parenting time, and in so doing, addressed other matters. Mother appeals. We affirm the award of equal parenting time and the adjustment to child support and income tax deductions that necessarily followed we modify the plan to include certain provisions that were in the previous parenting plan.

What This Ruling Means

**What happened:** This case appears to be mislabeled as an employment law matter. The dispute was actually about child custody and parenting time between divorced parents Wafa Badawi Hindiyeh (Mother) and Waleed Fawzi Abed (Father). The Father had previously appealed a parenting plan that only gave him 80 days with his child per year, arguing he deserved more time. The court agreed and sent the case back to the lower court to increase his parenting time. **What the court decided:** After a new hearing, the trial court adopted the Father's proposed plan, which gave both parents equal parenting time with their child. The Mother then appealed this decision, but the appeals court upheld the equal parenting time arrangement. **Why this matters for workers:** This case doesn't actually relate to employment law or workplace rights, despite being categorized as such. It's a family law case about child custody. Workers looking for employment law guidance should focus on cases that actually involve workplace disputes, discrimination, wages, or other job-related legal issues rather than family court matters.

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