Vilakazi v. Maxie

This is a petition entered in the Probate Court on May 10, 1973, by the father of a female child, then almost three years of age, asking that he be granted custody of the child and naming the mother of the child as respondent. After several temporary orders and other interlocutory proceedings thereon, and a hearing on the merits, a judge of the Probate Court entered a decree on December 5, 1974, granting the father and his second wife “custody and possession of said minor child until the further order of the Court, with no rights of visitation by [the mother].” The case is now before us on…