Bond v. Shepherd

JONES, Justice.

Appellees Harold Fay Shepherd and Sara F. Shepherd, the maternal grandparents of Grace Kelly Bond, age six, filed this action in the Carroll Circuit Court on August 29, 1972, seeking custody of Grace Kelly Bond from her natural parents, Maureen Bond and James E. Bond, who both resisted the action in the circuit court.

Maureen, the natural mother, was granted custody of Grace Kelly in an uncontested divorce in the Henry Circuit Court in January 1968. She then returned with Grace Kelly to Carrollton to the home of her parents, the appellees. At that time, Grace Kelly Bond was…