Buxton v. Hooker

Candler, Justice.

The marriage between John Arnold Hooker and Evelyn Hooker was dissolved by divorce in the Superior Court of Chatham County on March 12, 1945. The verdict awarded $10 per week for the support of their one-year-old son, Arthur W. Hooker, and required the father to pay the amount so awarded weekly to the mother until their son reached his majority. Permanent custody of the child was placed in the mother with certain visitation rights in the father. To these judgments there was no exception. Subsequently and after her marriage to Grady B. Buxton, the mother filed an application…