Schmitz v. Schmitz

In this divorce action the husband (appellant) appeals from a judgment awarding custody of the parties’ child to the wife (appellee). We affirm.

Appellee was thirty-five years old at the time of trial, has a B.S. degree in nursing and has worked as a critical care nurse. She was divorced from her first husband in 1972 and was awarded custody of their two children, George, who was in his pre-teens, and Kim, who was a teenager at the time of trial.

Appellee later met Fred Good who had a hotel on a Carribean island off the coast of Belize, Central America. With the possibility of a job there, she…