Lewis v. Lewis

This is an appeal in a divorce proceeding. The trial court dissolved the marriage, made a division of the property, awarded custody of the minor children to the respondent with visitation rights in the petitioner, and ordered each party to pay his own costs and attorney’s fees. The issues on appeal relate to the custody of the children and the petitioner’s request for attorney’s fees.

The petitioner was a student at the University of Michigan, 17 years of age, when she met the respondent who was then 25 years of age and a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University. They lived together for…