Williamson v. Williamson

Defendant appeals, by leave granted, from the order of the Monroe County Circuit Court changing custody of defendant’s three-year-old daughter from the defendant mother to the child’s paternal grandparents.

In April, 1979, plaintiff father filed for divorce. On June 5, 1979, the defendant was given temporary custody of the parties’ only child. A petition for intervention filed by the paternal grandparents was thereafter granted. A contested custody hearing was held before Judge William J. Weipert, Jr., on October 23, 1980, and decision was reserved. A judgment of divorce was entered on…