APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS

This appeal involves a bitter change of custody proceeding. Two years after the divorce, the father filed a petition in the Chancery Court for Williamson County seeking custody of three of the parties’ five children on the ground that the mother was progressively alienating the children from him. The mother counterclaimed for increased child support. Following a bench trial, the trial court declined to change the custody of the children and increased the father’s child support. The father asserts on this appeal that the trial court erred by refusing to find that the circumstances had changed sufficiently to warrant a change in the custody of the parties’ three youngest children.

This appeal involves an inmate’s challenge to the denial of his application for parole by the Tennessee Board of Paroles. After serving approximately ten years ofa 35-year sentence for aggravated rape, the inmate filed a petition for a common-law writ of certiorari in the Chancery Court for Davidson County asserting that the Tennessee Board of Paroles was illegally and arbitrarily declining to honor his plea bargain agreement. The trial court dismissed the petition on the grounds that it failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted and because it was not timely filed. The inmate has appealed pro se. We concur that the petition was not timely filed and affirm its dismissal in accordance with Tenn. Ct. App. R. 10(b).1