Bickler v. Bickler

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Doddridge County, entered July 27, 1984, which granted the parties a divorce. The appellant, Patricia Jane Bickler, appeals from that portion of the divorce decree which awarded the appellee, Dennis Alvin Bickler, custody of the parties’ minor child. We conclude that the lower court abused its discretion in making the custody award, and we reverse that part of the circuit court’s order.

The parties to this action were married in August 1978 and had one child, a daughter, born in June 1979. In September 1982, the appellant left the…