Draper v. Draper

In this child custody case, the natural mother has appealed from an Order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County (Beardmore, J.) for modification of a decree of divorce between appellant and appellee under the terms of which the mother received custody of a child, Jennifer, born on March 19, 1972. Several assignments of error are made. Determinative of this appeal, however, is our conclusion that the chancellor, acting prior to the decision of the Court of Appeals in Davis v. Davis, 280 Md. 119, 372 A. 2d 231 (1977), applied an improper standard in changing custody from the mother to…