Yelton v. Froelich

Memorandum: Respondent mother appeals from an order that, inter alia, modified the parties’ existing custody arrangement, to which the parties had stipulated, by awarding primary physical custody of the parties’ children to petitioner father. We reject the mother’s contention that the father failed to make the requisite showing of a change in circumstances to warrant alteration of the existing arrangement, pursuant to which she had primary physical custody. “[A]n existing [custody] arrangement that is based upon a stipulation of the parties is entitled to less weight than a disposition after…