Downing v. Downing

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The mother, Cynthia Downing [now Mi-nich], appeals from an order divesting her of the permanent custody of the child, Gretchen, then three years of age. The motion of the father, Mark Downing, to modify the divorce decree pleaded three changes of circumstances: 1) that the dwelling place occupied by the mother and child was not fit for habitation, 2) that the movant father was on occasion denied visitation and, 3) that both the mother and Michael Minich, her present husband, “have a general reputation as users of certain narcotic drugs”.

The court after evidence…