Cooley v. Cooley

The responsibility placed upon a trial court to decide which parent shall have the privilege of child custody is awesome in nature and exceedingly difficult to discharge. The difficulty multiplies when we are asked to review a custody order since we are removed from the atmosphere of the trial and must rest our decision upon a cold record. It is for this reason that a wide discretion is accorded to the trial court, with an attendant reluctance on our part to interfere with the trial court’s point of view. Realizing our inadequacy in these matters, we have, nonetheless, proclaimed certain…