Simmons v. Simmons

BRADLEY, Judge.

This is a child custody case.

Roger Dale Simmons and Cynthia Lee Simmons were divorced on October 26, 1981. The couple had one child during their marriage, a boy named Bradley Paul Simmons. In the original divorce decree the court adopted the parties’ agreement wherein they agreed that the wife should have custody of their son.

On April 24, 1984 the father filed a petition to modify the custody decree for the purpose of gaining custody of the child, who was then four years old. The father, a member of the United States Air Force, alleged that his wife’s desperate financial…