Walton v. Walton

This is an appeal by Michaeline K. Walton, the mother of David Jay Walton, from an order of the district court for Douglas County, Nebraska, placing possession of the parties’ 8-year-old son with the appellee father and removing the custody from the appellant mother. As this is a change of custody, we are governed by the rule recently announced in Boll v. Boll, 219 Neb. 486, 488, 363 N.W.2d 542, 544 (1985):

In actions seeking modification of the trial court’s order as to the custody of children in a marriage dissolution case, this court must, on appeal, review de novo the trial court’s…