Application of GK

WINANS, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment granting custody of her child to its natural father. This is the type of case in which the courts are expected to act with Solomon-like wisdom. Any solution reached in a custody case is seldom totally satisfactory. We affirm.

G. K., the natural father of T. T. G., a child, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in circuit court seeking custody of the child from M. G., its natural mother. Defendant’s return of the writ alleged that the mother of an illegitimate child is entitled to sole custody and prayed that the proceed*382ings be dismissed.…