Stapley v. Stapley

KRUCKER, Chief Judge.

This appeal questions the sufficiency of the evidence to support an order changing the custody of three minor children from their mother to their father.1

The parties were divorced in August, 1967, and custody of their three children, then 5, 3 and 1, respectively, was given to the mother with the father to have certain visitation privileges, including alternate weekends and “on their birthdays, and national holdidays if the children, or any of them, chooses to go with their father on said visits.” In December, 1968, the father petitioned the court to modify the custody…