Coles v. Coles

HOOD, Chief Judge.

The parties to this appeal are husband and wife and are the parents of a little girl who is now about four years of age. After months of marital discord the parties separated, and in the trial court each sought custody of their daughter. 1

The trial lasted many days and is reported in over 2,000 pages of transcript. Each party sought to prove his or her qualification for custody of the child and the other’s lack of qualification. To this end there was the testimony of the parties, their relatives and friends, and that of adult psychiatrists, a child psychiatrist, a…