Cogar v. Cogar

In this appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Braxton County, the appellant, Pam Fern Cogar, challenges a decree which awarded her husband, Lloyd Al*798len Cogar, Jr., the appellee herein, custody of their infant child.

Until February 17, 1979, appellant and appellee resided in Braxton County, West Virginia, with Lloyd Allen Cogar, III, the only child born of their marriage; on that day the appellant took the child, then twenty-one months old, and traveled to Utah. She was residing there with the child on February 23, 1979, when the appellee filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of…