Marriage of Eatherton v. Eatherton

REINHARD, Judge.

Father appeals from a trial court order modifying a dissolution decree to change primary custody of the parties’ one child from father to mother. We reverse.

The record reveals that the child, Brenda, was born of the marriage on December 4, 1979. The first hearing in the dissolution action was in March 1985. On April 1, 1985, the judge wrote the following letter to the attorneys for the parties:

Here is the decision in the Eatherton dissolution:

A. Marriage dissolved;

B. Primary custody to him with temporary custody and visitation with her on the first weekend of each month from…