Mikrut v. Mikrut

The judgment of the trial court modifying an initial divorce decree, which awarded custody of four small children to their mother, by removing two of the children to their father’s custody is challenged on this appeal.

Custody was originally determined in a contested hearing on August 10th, 1967. The children are Katherine, then age 3½ years, Stephen, 2½ years, Carol, 1 year, and Cherryl, age 2 months. The court, in awarding custody in connection with the decree of divorce commented that he was doing so “on the basis of the Probation Officer’s report, and the report from the H. Douglas Singer…