IN RE CUSTODY OF PHILLIPS


260 Pa.Super. 402 (1978)

394 A.2d 989

Custody of Jeffrey Allan PHILLIPS. Appeal of Meredith Wolfe.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira P. Smades, Philipsburg, with him Benjamin E. Vatz, Philipsburg, for appellant.

Timothy E. Durant, Clearfield, for appellee.

Before WATKINS, President Judge, and JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN der VOORT and SPAETH, JJ.


VAN der VOORT, Judge:

This is an appeal from a dismissal of a habeas corpus petition filed by Meredith Wolfe to obtain custody of her four year old son, Jeffrey, from the child's father, Gerald Phillips. The trial court dismissed the petition and awarded custody to the father. The mother has appealed.

The parties commenced living together at Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1972 and shortly thereafter moved to the home of Meredith's parents in West...

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