Shaffer v. Shaffer

This is an appeal from the modification of a divorce decree awarding the custody of a 4-year-old girl to the defendant father (respondent). The original decree, *700entered in December, 1958, 3 years earlier, awarded custody of the child to the plaintiff mother (appellant) with visitation privileges to the father together with a duty of support payments.

Following the entry of the original decree of divorce, the plaintiff lived in Aberdeen, Washington and the defendant continually visited his daughter. Shortly thereafter, however, the plaintiff moved from Washington to Oregon without notifying the…