J. F. G. v. K. A. G.

This is an appeal from the lower court’s denial of a father’s petition for custody of his three minor daughters. The lower court awarded custody of the girls, Angela, age six, Lisa, age four, and Noel, age three, to their natural mother.1

A hearing was held on March 30, 1979. The evidence on record is very sparse; indeed, the entire hearing transcript covers but twenty — five pages, and of those, only nineteen contain testimony. From the little evidence we have it appears that the father and mother had been married and that the three girls were the only children born of the marriage. After the…