In Re Marriage of Swift

Melinda Swift, the petitioner-appellee herein, and Loren J. Swift, the respondent-appellant, were divorced on March 22, 1977, in the Circuit Court of La Salle County. The divorce decree awarded the custody of the four minor children of the parties to their mother Melinda Swift. Thereafter on February 10,1978, the custody of three of the children was changed to the father Loren J. Swift pursuant to a stipulation between the parties. The petitioner Melinda Swift stipulated that conditions since the entry of the divorce decree had changed so that to leave those three of the children in her…