State ex rel. Sharp v. Sharp

PRICE, Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this habeas corpus proceeding seeking to recover the physical custody of their grandchildren from the mother of the children. The trial court found it to be in the best interest of the children for them to remain in the custody of the mother and rendered judgment in her favor. Plaintiffs appeal and we affirm.

Defendant and her husband were divorced in Arkansas in 1977. In that proceeding both parents were found to be unfit to have custody of their three minor children and custody was awarded to plaintiffs, the paternal grandparents. In July 1978, while exercising…