LaBelle v. LaBelle

MacLaughlin, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Ramsey County District Court, Family Court Division, amending a divorce decree by changing the custody of a minor son from the mother to the father, subject to the mother’s right of reasonable visitation. We affirm.

At issue is the custody of the youngest child of the parties, Ross Thomas LaBelle, born January 18, 1958. Plaintiff, Gerald J. LaBelle, and defendant, Margaret Ann LaBelle, Ross’ father and mother, were married on June 20, 1946, and divorced on November 16, 1970. At the time of the divorce three of the parties’ children…