Clarke v. Clarke

FLETCHER, Judge.

A mother appeals an order awarding temporary custody of her child not of the marriage and a child of the marriage to her husband, as well as awarding him exclusive possession of the marital home. For the reasons stated below, we reverse.

When the parties became married to each other the wife brought to the relationship three daughters from a previous marriage, one of whom, Irma, was still a minor. Subsequently, the parties had a child, Angela, born of the marriage. Irma was not adopted by the husband. Ultimately, the parties found themselves in a marital dissolution and child…