Garcia-Otero v. Garcia-Otero

Wife appeals the custody award of two minor children to husband pursuant to husband’s petition for dissolution of marriage. We affirm.

Husband and wife were married in St. Louis in 1976. The marriage produced two children: Martin, born 1978, and Anna, bom 1981. The parties lived in Colorado for three years after the marriage, then returned to St. Louis in 1979. In January of 1987, husband accepted a job in Bowling Green, Missouri, leaving wife and the children in St. Louis. The parties had been estranged for some time prior to this event. Husband filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in…