Charles v. Charles

MEMORANDUM OPINION

In this divorce action, the plaintiff father seeks joint legal custody of the parties’ one child. While such an arrangement is desirable in the abstract, the objection to it by the defendant mother, coupled with an attitude of hostility and suspicion which the parties harbor for each other, require that legal custody be awarded to the mother, with liberal rights of visitation by the father.

FACTS

Hilius Charles and Marilyn Charles were married in 1980. They are the parents of one child, Shani, who is 5 years old. The marriage deteriorated over time; the parties separated and…