Perkins v. Perkins

CALLISTER, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff-wife was granted a decree of divorce from defendant-husband in August of 1972. At the time of the divorce there was a minor child of the couple and two minor children of the wife by a previous marriage. The wife was granted custody of all three children with right of visitation to the husband of his natural child. The trial court specifically denied husband any visitation rights to the other two children.

Defendant did not appeal from the divorce decree, but, approximately eleven months after its entry, petitioned the court for a modification of the decree…