Harris v. Harris

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

This appeal concerns the custody of Michael Harris, now age four. The appellants are the maternal grandparents, the respondent is Mike’s father. Shortly after Mike was born, on June 16, 1980, his natural mother, Kim Harris, gave him to her mother, Virginia Bruckshaw, and her stepfather, Jim Bruckshaw, to raise. The maternal grandparents had Mike for almost one year, and then Kim filed for divorce from the father, Randy Harris. The father was granted legal custody. He took Mike with him to his parents’ house in Iowa. Kim was granted liberal visitation, including one…