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SHACKLEFORD v. CASEY

No. 284.

150 S.E.2d 513 (1966)

268 N.C. 349

Mr. and Mrs. Donald SHACKLEFORD v. Mrs. Lenora B. CASEY and Husband, David R. Casey.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 19, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fields & Cooper, by Leon Henderson, Jr., Rocky Mount, for petitioner appellants.

T. A. Burgess, Rocky Mount, John E. Davenport, Nashville, for respondent appellees.

HIGGINS, Justice.

As a general rule at common law and under our decisions, parents have the legal right to the custody of their infant children. This natural and substantive right the courts may not lightly disregard. "* * * (A) natural parent, father or mother, as the case may be, who is of good character and a proper person to have the custody of the child and is reasonably able to provide for it ordinarily is entitled to the custody as against all other persons...

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