Brenner v. Cavin

Quillian, Chief Judge.

We granted this discretionary appeal from a trial court’s refusal to enforce a child custody order of another state.

Appellant father and appellee mother were divorced in May, 1979 by the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and the mother was given custody of the minor son. From just prior to the divorce until December, 1980, the mother and child lived in Illinois except for a two-week absence in July, 1980 when the mother took her fiance to Georgia to meet her mother and married him. In mid-December, 1980, the mother took the child from Illinois to Georgia without…