Louisiana Court of Appeal April 13, 2016, No. 15-0972 (Ardoin v. Grice)

CONERY, Judge.

| tThis case exemplifies what can happen when an error of law early on in a case interdicts and colors the entire fact finding process in a civil custody trial. Such an error in this case allowed a putative father, a convicted felon, to obtain an invalid ex parte order of custody of a daughter he had had not seen for all of the six years of her life.