Stanton v. Stanton

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

This child custody dispute is between two parents who divorced without adjudicating custody of their minor child. The father has had the primary physical custody of the child during most of the child’s life.

John Stanton and Terri Stanton were married on August 1,1986, and were divorced on June 18, 1991, in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. In order to facilitate the divorce, the parties elected not to address the issue of custody of the parties’ minor child, an almost three-year-old daughter, Seleta.

The mother and the father were both medical students in Miami,…