Moffitt v. Moffitt

A wife appeals from that part of an interlocutory divorce decree awarding custody of her two children to her husband. The family had been living in Yuba City. At the time of the parents’ separation in April 1963 the elder child was 2 years old, the younger 1 year old. At first the father acknowledged the mother’s custody of the children. Some weeks later he became concerned with the kind of care they were receiving. At the end of May 1963, without his wife’s permission, he went to a baby sitter’s home, picked up the two babies and brought them to his parents’ home in Yuba City, where they…