Heyer v. Peterson

ALLBEE, Justice.

In this appeal unwed parents are vying for the custody of their child. We affirm trial court’s award of custody to the father.

I. Factual background. The dispute over custody arrives here from this background. The child, Matthew, was conceived as a result of the liaison between Shelley Jean Heyer and Richard Romaine Peterson. This transpired during the summer of 1976, when Shelley was seventeen and Richard was twenty-one. At that time, Shelley was ready to start her senior year at Estherville High School and Richard, who was graduated from the same school in 1973, was employed…