Gove v. Gove

This is an appeal as of right by defendant Gilbert E. Gove from an award of $1,250 in attorney fees entered by an Oakland County Circuit Court for plaintiff Dorothy N. Gove, upon completion of two hearings on petitions to modify a prior judgment for divorce.

The parties to this action were divorced in 1966. Custody of the parties’ only child was awarded to plaintiff-wife. Defendant-husband initiated a change of custody proceeding with a petition filed in 1974; subsequently, this petition was modified by a petition filed a few months later, wherein defendant demanded definite visitation rights…