In Re Custody of Holman

The petitioner wife appeals from the order of the trial court which dismissed her petition filed pursuant to section 601 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 40, par. 601) directed against the respondent husband for custody of three children.

This proceeding by the wife was filed on January 18,1979. The order of the trial court found that the children had been bom in California and that the parties had resided in Texas for six years prior to August 23,1978; that the parties had separated in that month and that on that date the wife brought the…