Carr v. Carr

480 So.2d 1120 (1985)

Benita W. CARR

v.

Wilbert Marcus CARR, Jr.

No. 55029.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 13, 1985.

Martin A. Kilpatrick Greenville, for appellant.

Howard Dyer, III, Dyer, Dyer & Dyer, Rabun Jones, Greenville, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

The question addressed by this child custody appeal is whether the fact of adultery precludes, per se, the award of custody to the offending spouse. This Court holds that the fact of adultery alone does not disqualify a parent from custodianship but that the polestar…