Hawkins v. Hawkins

The defendant is appealing from the judgment of the trial court rendered in a dissolution of marriage action.

After a fully contested dissolution action, the state trial referee dissolved the marriage of the parties. The court awarded the parties joint custody of the minor children with the principal residence of the children to be with the plaintiff mother, subject to reasonable rights of visitation to the defendant father.

In its memorandum of decision, the court made the following findings of fact. The parties had been married since May 9,1970. At the time of trial, the plaintiff was 39…