WESTOVER v. WESTOVER

No. 35048.

55 Wn.2d 321 (1959)

347 P.2d 825

PAULINE ANN WESTOVER, Respondent, v. LORIS D. WESTOVER, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

December 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibson & Palmer, for appellant.

Victor Haglund, for respondent.


FINLEY, J.

The primary problem presented by this case is whether it is an abuse of discretion for the trial court, in a divorce action, to postpone consideration of the question of permanent custody of minor children of the parties until sometime subsequent to the entry of the divorce decree. The respondent wife instituted the divorce proceedings in April 1958, at which time the six minor children of the parties were attending school in the town of Quincy, Grant county...

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