In Re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Gridley

Contending that "irreconcilable differences” between respondent and herself had caused the "irremediable breakdown” of their marriage, appellant-wife requested the circuit court to enter a decree dissolving that legal relationship; 1 she also requested the court to include in that decree a provision awarding her the care, custody and control of a child "bom to the parties” on October 15, 1972, some six months before their marriage. In response appellant’s husband acknowledged the existence of "irreconcilable differences” between the parties but specifically denied that he was the father of…