Durrette v. Durrette

This is a dispute between parents over the custody of twin boys. The sole question is whether the trial court erred in awarding custody to the father.

Appellee Gordon E. Durrette and appellant Karen Lacks Durrette married in 1974 when they were in their early twenties. The twins were born two years later in October of 1976.

On December 27, 1979, the mother left the marital abode, located in Spotsylvania County near the City of Fredericksburg. She took her sons and resided temporarily with the maternal grandmother nearby. Within a short time, the mother delivered the boys to their father for…