Lee v. Lee

JACKSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court refusing to modify the child custody provisions of a divorce decree entered in 1953 in a case in which Joan M. Lee (now Sides) was awarded a decree of divorce from Lloyd E. Lee. At that time custody of the two year old daughter of the parties had been awarded to the mother.

In December, 1962, the father filed a motion to modify the decree with reference to the custody of the child, in which he made, among others, the following allegations :

“That said minor child of the parties has been under the care, custody, and control…