Cole v. Cole

HOGAN, Judge.

This appeal is taken from an order changing the custody of the parties’ son from the appellant mother to the respondent father. We reverse.

The parties were divorced in July of 1980. The decree which was entered awarded custody of the parties’ children to the mother. The father has remarried; the mother has not. Both parties live in Joplin or in the area of Joplin. The father is an over-the-road truck driver; the mother is a licensed practical nurse.

The subject of this custody dispute is a male child, Hardy David Cole, II, who was about 4 years old at trial time. Hardy has been in…