In re House of the Holy Family for the Transfer & Commitment of " Montana "

The child Evelyn, bom February 5, 1926, was graduated from public grammar school in June, 1939, and she did well also during her first term at A. High School. But towards the end of the second term her entire attitude changed, she began failing in almost every subject, and between September, 1940, and April, 1941, became unruly and truant successively at B. High School, C. Parochial School and D. Vocational High School.

The onset of Evelyn’s maladjustment was coeval with the divorce of her parents and the award of her custody to the father in a May 27, 1940, final decree in his favor;

The…