Legal Opinion
Marks v. Marks
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided April 13, 1984No. 0148PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, Judge:
This is a “child snatching” case involving conflicting custody decrees of the courts of South Carolina and West Virginia. Because the child was removed from West Virginia to this State in willful violation of a valid custody decree of the West Virginia court, we reverse the judgment of the family court changing custody of the child from the mother to the father.
The appellant, Jeanne S. Marks, and the respondent, Richard L. Marks, were married in 1967 in West Virginia. In 1970 their only child, the respondent Timothy Lee Marks, was born in that state. Timothy was raised in West…
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