In Re the Marriage of McGee

ENOCH, Chief Judge.

This appeal arises out of a dispute over custody and visitation of the only child of a marriage dissolved in 1977. We affirm that portion of the orders by the trial court relating to permanent custody, but reverse the part of the orders dealing with visitation.

The parties met and married in Switzerland in 1969, and although they lived during most of the marriage in the United States, where the child was born, the mother retained Swiss citizenship. The father has always been a citizen of the United States. At the time of the decree of dissolution, the parties already were…