Pickens v. Hawayek

SAMUEL, Judge.

This is a rule nisi brought by the mother against the father, her divorced husband for custody of their two minor daughters, Mary Evelyn and Linda Darlene, whose permanent custody had been awarded to the father in the divorce judgment.

After trial of the rule the district court modified and changed the divorce judgment only to the extent of awarding custody of the younger child to the mother. The father has appealed therefrom. The mother has answered the appeal praying that the judgment be affirmed insofar as it awards her custody of the younger child and that it be reversed…