Call v. Call

Acting under section 598.14, Code of 1954, the trial court modified a prior divorce decree by changing the custody of three minor children from the mother to the father. The mother appeals.

I. Section 598.14 provides:

“When a divorce is decreed, the court may make such order in relation to the children * * * as shall be right.

“■Subsequent changes may be made by it in these respects when circumstances render them expedient.”

Such proceedings are reviewable de novo and, as the guiding star is the welfare of the children, the statute is. liberally construed, with considerable discretion being…