Larkin v. Larkin

REDMANN, Judge.

A divorced mother appeals from a custody judgment which took custody of her four children from their father and gave her custody of two girls, now ages 14 and 9, and gave the paternal grandmother custody of a girl 16 and a boy 7. The mother seeks reversal only with respect to the boy. (The mother has moved to Hawaii and she testified at trial that she respected, in view of the oldest daughter’s approaching college age, that child’s wish to stay in Louisiana with the grandmother, to whom she was very close.)

We reverse. In the absence of unusual circumstances, established in the…