Filipello v. Filipello

This is an appeal from an order granting a father permanent custody of his minor children.

Jeanette Filipello and Michael Filipello were divorced in 1962. Custody of their two children, Regina, age seven, and Michael, Jr., age four, was awarded to the mother. In October 1965 Filipello, who had remarried in 1964, filed a petition for custody. He alleged that his former wife had been arrested for conspiracy to commit murder and was morally unfit to bring up the children.

Attached to his petition were four newspaper articles which supported his charge. According to these articles, the former Mrs.…