Gooch v. Seamans

Tom Glaze, Judge.

This case involves a petition to modify a decree of divorce wherein appellant requested permission to remove the parties’ children from Arkansas to Oklahoma. The trial court denied appellant’s petition, and she filed this appeal. We reverse.

In Ising v. Ward, 231 Ark. 767, 332 S.W.2d 495 (1960), the Supreme Court announced the general rule that the parent having custody of a child is ordinarily entitled to move to another state and to take the child to the new domicile. (See also, Antonacci v. Antonacci, 222 Ark. 881, 263 S.W.2d 484 [1954], in which the court permitted the…