Holt v. Holt

This is an appeal from an order entered in favor of the father and against the mother, denying her petition for a change of custody of two daughters, aged eight and eleven. Custody had originally been awarded to the father by a California court in an uncontested divorce proceeding which became final in June, 1974.

The parties had resumed marital relations and lived together as husband and wife beginning in December, 1973, prior to the entry of the final decree of dissolution. The mother resumed her care of the parties’ two daughters.1

The mother had developed serious mental problems in May,…