Jones v. Jones

WHITE, Judge.

On March 31, 1978, the Grayson Circuit Court entered a decree which dissolved the parties’ marriage and provided for the custody of their minor child. The issues in the instant appeal center upon the decree’s custody provision, which recites that temporary custody is awarded to the appellee-fa-ther, father and child to reside with the paternal grandparents. Appellant, the child’s mother and respondent below, advances several substantive arguments to the effect that this provision constitutes an improper award of custody to a nonparent. The presumption in favor of natural parents,…