Barrier v. Brewster

CULLEN, Commissioner.

This appeal involves a controversy between divorced parents concerning the custody of their daughter, now six years of age. The mother appeals from an order directing that the father have custody during the school year of nine months and the mother during the summer vacation period of three months, each parent to have reasonable visitation privileges during the other’s period of custody.

In the divorce judgment, granted in 1959, it was provided that the custody should be divided on the basis of 6-month periods. On subsequent motion, in 1960, the judgment was modified so as…