Foss v. Leifer

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal concerns a petition seeking to modify child custody provisions contained in a decree of divorce granted to appellant on August 10, 1972. The judgment appealed from is that of the district court, Jefferson County, entered December 17, 1975.

Appellant Cheryl Leifer Foss and respondent James T. Leifer were married in the city of Butte, Montana, in November 1968. Their son Christopher Lance Leifer was born the following year. The divorce decree provided, inter alia, that appellant should have the care, custody and control…