Stephenson v. Stephenson

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a suit for divorce and child custody filed by J. Douglas Stephenson against his wife, Linda Carr Stephenson. The trial court rendered a divorce judgment in favor of the husband on grounds of adultery and granted custody of the 4-year-old child to the defendant mother. The plaintiff-husband appeals the custody award.

Douglas and Linda were married on November 10,1973, in Indiana. One daughter, Candice Ann, was born of the marriage. The couple moved to Louisiana in early March of 1974 and moved four or five times since then before finally settling in Prairie-ville.

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