Strout v. Strout

Shaw, Acting Associate Justice:

This is an appeal from a family court order awarding a divorce and custody of three minor children to respondent Albion Strout. We affirm.

On appeal from an order of the family court, we have jurisdiction to find facts based on our own view of the preponderance of the evidence. However, we are not required to disregard the findings of the trial judge who saw and heard the witnesses and was in a better position to evaluate their credibility. Calcutt v. Calcutt, S. C., 320 S. E. (2d) 55 (S. C. App. 1984).

The trial court order minimally complied with Family Court…