Cushing v. Painter

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment modifying a dissolution decree in regard to cus tody of the parties’ seven-year-old daughter, Johanna Painter. 1 Rodger and Debbie Painter 2 obtained a dissolution in March 1978. The parties drafted the dissolution decree, which gave custody of Johanna to Debbie and provided for visitation as follows:

Custody to Rodger Painter February to May 1978. Subsequent arrangements should be reached by mutual agreement until Johanna reaches school age, when each parent will have custody one full year at a time.

Johanna lived with the Cushing…