Murphy v. Murphy

This is a case involving child custody and visitation.

The former wife petitioned for modification of a child custody decree which dictated that the residence of the minor child could not change without permission of the husband or the trial court.

After an ore tenus hearing, the trial court modified the earlier decree and allowed the mother and child to move to another location within this state. The trial court thereafter necessarily modified the husband's visitation rights.

The husband, through able and distinguished counsel, appeals, contending in the main that the trial court erred in…