In re Wehunt

MARTIN, Judge.

In Thomas v. Pickard, 18 N.C. App. 1, 4, 195 S.E. 2d 339 (1973) this Court through Brock, Chief Judge, said, “A court should not take a child from the custody of its parents and place it in the hands of a third person except upon convincing proof that the parent is an unfit person to have custody of the child or for some other extraordinary fact or circumstance.” In Thomas, supra, this Court reversed an order allowing a maternal grandmother to have temporary custody of a child in derogation of the father’s rights. See also 3 Lee, N. C. Family Law, Custody of Children, § 224,…