Blankenship v. Blankenship

This is a child-custody case. The husband was awarded a divorce from the wife on evidence which might well have justified the trial court in awarding, the custody of their then eighteen-months-old child to the father. The trial court, however, awarded the custody to the mother, but. with a provision which gave the father the right to take the child from .five o’clock p. m. each Thursday until five o’clock p. m. each Sunday. This gave the child to the mother for four days of the week and to the father for three days of the week. Such a frequent passing back and forth of the child between the…