Duffy v. Duffy

MANN, Judge.

In custody cases it is often impossible to do the right thing because there is no right thing. Here is a case in which both mother *494and father are less than ideal parents, and after hearing the testimony the trial judge awarded to the father custody of two boys, the older of whom is a stepson adopted by him. The pronouncement of this ruling sent the mother into a highly emotional state. The attorneys and parties then conferred and stipulated that the custody of the older child should be awarded to the mother and of the younger child to the father. She appeals, urging Arons v.…