In Re Guardianship of Phillips

Harry and Catherine Phillips’s short-lived marriage was blessed with two children who are the subject of this appeal.

A decree of divorce entered by Scott Circuit Court in April, 1973, granted custody of the children, subject to the husband’s right of visitation, in Catherine. Thereafter, in July, 1977, Catherine met an untimely death, and co-petitioner-appellant Trula Mount of Scottsburg, maternal grandmother of the children, took the children into her care. Mount and co-petitioner-appellant 1 Charles Overbey of Goleta, California, brother of the decedent, subsequently filed a petition for…