Bonilla v. Bonilla

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the Chancellor abused his judicial discretion in refusing to grant appellant the custody of his infant daughter. A careful review of the case convinces us the Chancellor correctly found that it would be in the best interest of the child to remain in the custody of her grandparents, at least until there has been a material change of conditions.

Nester Bonilla and his wife, Lillie, were divorced by a judgment of the Leslie Circuit Court in 1951, and Lillie was granted custody of their two-year-old child, Deborah Ann. On March…