In Re the Marriage of Padbury

Mother appeals the modification of decree entered by the trial court changing custody of the parties’ 14-year-old son from mother to father. We reverse.

Pursuant to the original dissolution decree of August 12, 1977, mother was awarded custody of the parties’ three children. Shortly after that decree was entered mother remarried and moved with the children to Butte, Montana. Almost immediately thereafter, father sought and obtained a modification of the visitation provisions of the decree based upon the move to Butte; he obtained extended visitations at Christmas, spring break and during the…