In Re Marriage of Shepherd

PREWITT, Judge.

Petitioner appeals from the trial court’s dissolution of marriage decree granting custody of the parties’ minor child to respondent. Petitioner’s only claim of error is in regard to that custody.

The parties were married on March 2, 1974, and one child, Jason, was born on March 31, 1976. They separated on December 29, 1977. Petitioner now lives in Brigham City, Utah, and works as a bank teller. Respondent lives in the mobile home, which had been their family home, in Dixon, Missouri. At the time of the trial he testified that he had been laid off temporarily from civil service…