Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bender v. Bender

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This appeal involves the custody of Denise Maureen Bender now age 11, and John Albert Bender, Jr. now age 9. The father of these children is appealing from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County (Van Roden, P. J., Orphans’ Court'specially presiding) which transferred their general custody from him to their mother, Harriet Bender.

The evidence elicited at the hearing immediately prior to this order presents very little factual dispute. The mother who is now 34 years of age, lives in Med-ford Lakes, New Jersey, and has been residing there with her sister…