In re the Marriage of Hibdon

Father appeals from the court’s order modifying a dissolution-of-marriage decree to grant custody of one of the parties’ children to mother and providing that certain sums be paid as child support.

The parties’ marriage was dissolved by a decree entered in August 1975. That decree incorporated a property settlement agreement entered into by the parties which provided that father would have custody of the two children of the parties. No provision for child support was made. In December 1976, one of the parties’ children, age 14, began living with mother with the consent of father. At that time…