In Re the Marriage of Brainard

CADY, Judge.

Respondent (Ron) and Petitioner (Sue) appeal from the child custody, visitation, child support, property division and attorney fee provisions of the trial court’s decree dissolving their marriage. Custody was the paramount issue at trial, and is the focus of the appeal. The trial court granted sole custody of the children to Sue. We affirm, with modification.

Ron and Sue were married on September 13, 1980. They have two children, Christina and Deborah. Christina was born July 26, 1981, and Deborah was bom May 15, 1983. Ron was forty-eight years old at the time of trial. Sue was…