Culbertson v. Jones

This case concerns the custody of Helen Lee Culbertson, a minor, now aged ten years.

In 1943 the parents were divorced. Both parties recommended that custody of the child be granted to the paternal grandmother. She was amply able to support and provide for the child and desired such custody. The trial court, without any finding that either the father or mother was an unfit person to have custody of the child, decreed custody to the grandmother, who has since had such custody. There was, of course, provision for reasonable visitation by each parent.

Thereafter the child’s father married a second…