Shannon v. Shannon

ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.

Dissolution of marriage proceeding. The contested issue was custody of a child. Trial court dissolved marriage and awarded custody of child to mother. Father appeals.

F. Scott Shannon, Jr., and Paula Shannon were married September 8, 1966. Paula was 19 years of age at that time. A child was born to the parties January 8, 1969. The custody of that child, Craig Lee Shannon, the only child of the marriage, is the issue here. In August, 1969, the parties separated. According to Scott, the separation followed an incident in which the child was left at the couple’s…