In re the Marriage of Van Dyke

This is a dissolution of marriage proceeding in which the wife appeals the award of custody of the couple’s two year old child to the father, the division of property, and the trial court’s failure to award spousal support. In the event this court awards custody to the appellant, she also requests that the husband be required to make child support payments. We modify the award of custody.

The parties were married on September 15, 1975. They have one child, a son, bom on June 15, 1977. The husband filed for dissolution on February 21, 1979, and asked for and received temporary custody of the…