Ponder v. Rice

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

This is a child custody action. Shirley May Rice Ponder, joined by her present husband James E. Ponder, brought this suit in the District Court of Hunt County, Texas seeking a decree awarding her custody and control of Stanley Boyd Rice, III, age ten. She alleges that in the original decree granting divorce from her former husband Stanley Boyd Rice, Jr., the Domestic Relations Court of Dallas County, Texas awarded her the permanent care, custody and control of two minor female children, but ordered that the permanent care, custody and control of Stanley Boyd…