Stucker v. Stucker

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Husband and wife petitioned the trial court to dissolve an eighteen-month marriage. Wife appeals the award of primary care, custody and control of their eleven-month-old son to husband, and husband cross-appeals the award to wife of $900.00 in attorney’s fees where wife offered evidence of a total fee of $1900.00. We affirm.

We first turn to wife’s appeal. Generally, in a custody decision we defer to the trial court unless firmly convinced the welfare of the child requires a different disposition. Fastnacht v. Fastnacht, 616 S.W.2d 98, 100-101 (Mo.App.1981). There was…