Hampton v. Hampton

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Arkansas County Chancery Court modifying a divorce decree as to the visitation rights of the father with the couple’s three year old daughter.

Sherrye and Alton Hampton were married on October 21, 1962, when she was sixteen and he was nineteen years of age. They lived together on his father’s rice farm near DeWitt for about two years when their child, Monti, was born. Alton was overseas for about two years as a member of the armed forces and while he was away Sherrye and the child lived with her parents who operate a grocery store in…