Fowler v. Fowler

In some cases a simple exercise in arithmetic reveals the right more clearly than ten thousand, words of judicial reasoning. This is such a case.

Faye and Oscar Fowler were married August 13, 1946. By the time she brought this action for divorce in August, 1965, they had four children: Mark, age 18, a student at the University of Washington; Pamela Sue, 17 years old, attending a private school in Virginia; Douglas, age 12, attending public school; and Jacqueline, born in 1961, of preschool age. The two older children expressed a preference to live with their father, and this the court ordered.…