BLACKLEY v. BLACKLEY

No. 50.

204 S.E.2d 678 (1974)

285 N.C. 358

Phyllis Montague BLACKLEY (now Phyllis Daniel) v. Robert Harry BLACKLEY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watkins, Edmundson & Wilkinson by Samuel B. Currin, III, Oxford, for defendant appellant.

Vann & Vann by Arthur Vann and Arthur Vann, III, Durham, for plaintiff appellee.


BRANCH, Justice.

The question presented by this appeal is whether there was sufficient evidence of change of circumstances affecting the welfare of Robert Harry Blackley, Jr., to justify modification of prior Orders placing him in the custody of his mother.

The court in which a divorce action is brought acquires jurisdiction over the custody of the unemancipated children of the marriage, and such jurisdiction continues...

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