Wise v. Wise

COMPTON, Justice.

Appellant instituted this proceeding for divorce and for the custody of the minor children of the parties.

Previously, the California court, in an action brought by appellee alleging cruelty, granted an interlocutory decree of divorce and awarded custody of the children to the father but subject to reasonable visitations by the mother. Thereafter, at a hearing to modify the decree, the court directed that the mother should have the children during the summer. The mother came to Alamagordo and established residence near her parents, where she now resides. The maternal…