Lowe v. Lindley

Ness, Justice:

This appeal is from an order changing the custody of the parties’ daughter from the appellant mother to the respondent father. We reverse, concluding a material change of circumstances substantially affecting the child’s welfare was not established.

The parties were divorced in August of 1976. An agreement between them providing that custody of the daughter be granted to the mother and custody of the son be granted to the father was incorporated into the divorce decree. Both have remarried and live in or around the Greenwood area. The mother is in the real estate business and the…