M.D.R. v. P.K.R.

BERREY, Judge.

Appeal from a dissolution decree awarding custody of the parties’ minor child to the husband, M.D.R. Wife, P.K.R., appeals, arguing that the circuit court erred because it based the custody award entirely on the evidence concerning her extramarital affair. She contends that the court misapplied the law because it focused on this one aspect of the evidence to the exclusion of all other relevant evidence.

The parties were married in Boone County, Missouri, on July 3, 1982. One male child, J.M.R., was born of the marriage on January 2, 1984. The parties separated briefly during…