Legal Opinion
In Re the Marriage of Lawson
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided March 6, 1980No. 79CA0166PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STERNBERG, Judge.
In this custody dispute the husband appeals an order denying his request to convert a one-year award of temporary custody of a child into a permanent award of custody. We reverse.
The marriage of the parties was dissolved in 1977. They had been married for three years and had two children, a 2⅛ year old boy and a 1½ year old girl. The wife was represented by counsel in the dissolution proceedings; the husband was not, despite verbal and written suggestions from the wife’s attorney that he should have counsel. The parties were young, having married when the husband was 17 and…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Kelley v. KelleySupreme Court of Colorado · 1967
- MacReynolds v. MacReynoldsColorado Court of Appeals · 1971
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