Phillips v. Phillips

This is an appeal from an order granting letters of guardianship of the person and estate of Deanne Phillips, a minor, to her mother, Ber trice Marie Phillips.

In 1941 Ber trice Marie Phillips and Donald E. Phillips were husband and wife and were living in Kern County with their two-year-old child, Deanne. In November of that year the superior court in Kern County granted an interlocutory decree of divorce to the wife. In the decree it was provided that the wife was entitled to the custody of the child, but that the immediate care and control should be in Mrs. Mary Phillips, the child’s…