Strickland v. Osborn

This appeal is from a judgment modifying a prior child custody decree.

The appellant, Helen Thompson Strickland, the mother of the child in question, and the father of the child, Robert Thompson, were divorced in June or July, 1973. There were three children born of this marriage — two girls and a boy. The parents agreed that the two girls would go with the mother and the boy with the father. The divorce decree was silent as to the custody of the children.

Robert Thompson remarried shortly after the divorce and then, sometime during the first part of 1974, he was killed in a work related…