Roper v. Roper

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from the order of the trial court overruling the father’s (appellant’s) motion to modify a divorce decree seeking transfer of custody of the twelve-year-old son of the parties from the mother to the father. The parties were divorced when the child was six years old. Although served, the father made default and the divorce was granted to the mother who also received custody of the then six-year-old boy, and chid support. At the time of the hearing below on the father’s motion for custody, the boy was twelve years old. In the view we take of this case, a…