Sanders v. Sanders

Melvin Mayfield, Chief Judge.

This is a child custody case. The child was born June 25, 1971. Her parents were divorced on January 30, 1975, by a Pulaski Chancery Court which granted custody of the child to the mother.

On September 11, 1975, the court granted the mother’s petition to remove her daughter from Arkansas to California where the mother, who was planning to remarry, intended to live. The order also provided that the father would have custody for thirty days each year during the summer.

In the summer of 1979 the mother sent the child to Arkansas for the thirty-day visit with the father…