Randolph v. Dean

This is an appeal from an order of the Rock Island County Circuit Court granting Peggy L. Randolph’s petition to modify her divorce decree so as to grant custody to her of the minor son of plaintiff and defendant Charles W. Dean.

Plaintiff Peggy Randolph (then Peggy Dean) was granted a divorce from defendant Charles W. Dean on May 24, 1971, on the ground of mental cruelty. Divorce proceedings were brief and uncontested by defendant who appeared only by counsel. The custody of their 2%-year-old child was awarded to the defendant-father, as a result of a written stipulation to that effect signed…