Shea v. Shea

Defendant appealed from four orders of the superior court modifying a previous order giving him custody of the minor children of the parties by prohibiting him from taking them outside the state.

Question Pbesented

Has the court authority, without changing a previous order giving the father custody of his children, to require that they may not be taken from the state, thereby, in effect, giving actual custody to the maternal grandparents ?

Facts.Plaintiff wife secured an interlocutory decree of divorce from defendant March 16, 1942, and was given custody of the three children of the parties,…