Marcus v. Marcus

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ADESKO

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff and defendant were divorced on December 12, 1957. Custody of their minor son, Jeffrey, then aged 3 years, was given to the mother, Beverle Marcus. She remarried twice thereafter. Her second husband died. Subsequently she married a Mr. Tickman, with whom she had two children. Jeffrey appeared to have some emotional problems which caused Judge Robert L. Hunter to appoint Dr. Seymour R. Steinhorn, acceptable to both parents, to examine him. The boy stayed away from his mother’s home and expressed a preference to stay with…