In Re the Marriage of Hunnell

WOLLE, Justice.

This appeal concerns the custody of two minor children, Anna Hunnell born on May 1, 1974, and Jessica Hunnell born on September 13, 1977. When the trial court in chambers asked eleven year old Anna what she thought this case was all about, she candidly answered, “About my mom and my dad and my aunt fighting, trying to get custody.” The mother, Wilma Jean Capers (Jean), had received custody in the initial dissolution decree entered in 1978, but the father, Gary Hunnell (Gary), received sole custody when the decree was modified in December of 1979. The Dawsons had been like…