Griffin v. Griffin

This is an appeal by Teresa Ann Griffin (“appellant”) from a decree dissolving her marriage to Charles Lee Griffin (“respondent”). Appellant’s sole contention is that the trial court erred in awarding primary custody of the parties’ two children — ages seven and four at time of trial1 — to respondent and in granting appellant insufficient periods of temporary custody and visitation.

It is axiomatic that there is no rigid or mechanical formula for determining who should receive custody of children in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage. Petty v. Petty, 760 S.W.2d 555, 556 (Mo.App.1988).…