Wilson v. Wilson

Ness, Justice:

In this child custody suit the family court granted custody to respondent husband. We affirm.

The couple married in 1978 and a child was born to them. Appellant wife was granted temporary custody of the child when the couple separated in 1981. Respondent husband bcame suspicious his wife was seeing another man after the separation and placed surveillance upon her.

In 1983 the family court granted the husband a divorce based on the wife’s adultery and awarded him permanent custody of the child. His order afforded the wife reasonable visitation but forbid any visitation when the…