West v. West

Defendant-father appeals from a divorce decree upon one point: the decree limited his visitation with a child of the marriage to one supervised hour per month, conditioned upon his paying $7.50 semimonthly toward support.

The evidence discloses that the parties lived together for about two months after their marriage, whereupon the plaintiff separated from her husband because of his peculiar conduct. The child was born much later and the defendant had not seen the child, then two months old, at the time of trial on October 30,1970.

The defendant receives a disability welfare grant; plaintiff…