In Re the Custody of Dumont

The mother, Colleen M. Allison, formerly Colleen M. DuMont, appeals from a child custody modification order. She was the custodial parent of Edward Charles DuMont, her natural son from marriage to the father, Edward DuMont. The father had petitioned for modification. The District Court concluded that there was good and sufficient basis to modify the custody awarded in the original dissolution decree issued when the parties’ marriage was dissolved.

We affirm.

The mother and the father were married in Charlo, Montana, in 1977. The mother had one daughter prior to this marriage. One child, a son,…