State ex rel. Kobayashi v. Parker

HOWARD, Judge.

Relator Shelly Stitt Kobayashi and her late husband, Michael Stitt, were divorced on January 21,1993. Relator was awarded custody of the couple’s two children, David Allen Stitt, bom October 10, 1989, and Tina Rochelle Stitt, bom December 17, 1990. Michael Stitt died in a motor vehicle accident on March 24,1995.

On December 30, 1996, Clayton Stitt, the children’s paternal grandfather, filed a motion to intervene and modify the decree of dissolution to make him the children’s primary custodian. The motion claimed that the change in custody was necessitated by relator’s parental…