Chesser v. Chesser

DEWELL JOHN, Associate Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a mother’s petition for return to her of the custody of her minor children.

Betty Jo Chesser and George Norman Chesser were divorced on June 2, 1969 by a Final Judgment which granted her custody of the two children of the parties. Slightly over a year later the mother, being financially insecure and “emotionally upset”, requested the father, who had moved to Montana, to take the children temporarily. A joint petition for the change in custody was executed by the parties and approved by the Court on August 1,…