Commonwealth Ex Rel. Gifford v. Miller

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This child custody case involves a contest between the mother of an illegitimate child and the putative father’s parents for custody of a boy who is two years and four months old. The lower court gave custody to the putative father’s parents. We reverse.

Ronald Gifford, the subject of this controversy, was born March 13, 1966, to Mildred Gifford, an unmarried 21 year, old woman. The child remained with his *271mother until April 1, 1968, when the mother entered a hospital for surgery. The putative father, Ronald Miller, at that time offered to take care of the child until the…