Goodman v. Goodman

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of one district court changing the child custody decree of another district court.

On June 3, 1947, Josephine Goodman obtained a divorce from John Goodman in the 126th Judicial District Court of Travis County. That decree also made provision for the custody of the minor child born of the marriage. At that time the child was three years old and the father was in the United States Army. Custody was awarded the mother until the child reached the age of sixteen years, but provided that the father “may visit said child upon reasonable notice to…