Hoder v. Hoder

The mother of two small children contends that the chancellor erred in awarding custody of the children to their father.

Judge Jones found that the mother, who had moved back to Baltimore from the family home in Florida, was carrying on an adulterous relationship with a married man by whom she had an illegitimate child when she was fifteen and that this man was the important, overriding consideration of her life, far more so than the children, and came to the following conclusion :

“Bringing up two young children in such an atmosphere with the mother’s paramour being the dominant figure in her…