Moore v. Jordan

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a child custody case. When the parties were divorced in May, 1968, their daughter, Michelle Moore, was four months old. At that time the child’s mother, now the appellee, was only twenty and had no home to which to take the child. Consequently the decree provided, by agreement, that custody was awarded to the child’s father, now the appellant. Moore was then living with his own parents, the Floyd Moores. The award of custody was conditioned upon the child’s being cared for by Mrs. Moore, Sr.

In June, 1969, the appellee married her present husband, Michael…