Martin v. Martin

CARDINE, Chief Justice.

The question here presented is whether a district court abused its discretion by entering a divorce decree that provides future automatic modification of child custody from a six-month/six-month joint custody to a nine-month/three-month custody if one parent moves from Laramie, Wyoming. We hold that this provision for automatic future modification is an abuse of discretion and vacate those provisions of the divorce decree.

Appellee, Curtiss William Martin (husband), sought and was granted a divorce from appellant, Sue Ellen Wallis-Martin (wife). The record is brief and…