In Re Marriage of Lichtenstein

The marriage of petitioner (Joann Bowley, formerly Lichtenstein) and respondent (Reinhold Lichtenstein) was dissolved by the circuit court of St. Clair County on June 8, 1981. Petitioner was awarded custody of the couple’s two minor children. On June 17, 1985, the court granted petitioner leave to remove the children from Illinois to take them to Germany to live with petitioner and her new husband, and simultaneously denied respondent’s petition to modify custody. On appeal, respondent claims the court’s decisions to grant petitioner leave to remove the children and to deny his petition for…