Messmer v. Messmer

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court modifying the child custody and support provisions of an original divorce decree. The original decree, entered on June 8, 1971, awarded appellant-mother custody of the parties’ three minor children and required respondent-father to pay child support. The modification order transferred custody of the children to the father and required the mother to pay child support. The mother contends first that it was error to change custody of the children, and that even if a change of custody was proper it was error to order that she pay support.

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