Bingham v. Bingham

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiff Vicki Bingham appeals from an order made in proceedings supplemental to divorce which changed the custody of their 7 year-old son from her to the defendant Vernal Bingham.

The plaintiff grounds her attack upon the order on the rule to which we agree as a general proposition: that it is presumed to be for the best interest and welfare of a child of tender years to be with his mother. However, under the modern trend of social thinking away from former fixed rigidities, toward equality of the sexes and greater flexibility in considering the qualifications of the…