Warman v. Warman

DIXON, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents issues of child custody and visitation rights in an unconventional setting. Appellants are the paternal grandparents of the 5 year old male child. Respondent is the father and was the mov-ant in the circuit court on a motion to modify which was sustained.

For clarity, a summary of the preceding litigation will be helpful. Respondent-husband was divorced from the mother in October, 1967. He received the decree of divorce, but the mother received custody of the then eighteen-month-old boy. The mother removed the child from Missouri to Florida, and the…