Jenkins v. Jenkins

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ENGLISH

delivered the opinion of the court.

Petitioner appeals from denial of her petition to modify a divorce decree so as to grant her the custody of her son.

Petitioner and Respondent were married in 1953, and were separated in January 1963 after a series of violent family quarrels, following one of which Respondent required several stitches in his head. At the time of the separation, the daughter (age three) went with Petitioner to live in her maternal grandmother’s home, and the son (age eight) remained with his father, who rented another abode and leased the family…