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S. H. v. R. L. H.

No. 15449.

289 S.E.2d 186 (1982)

S. H. v. R. L. H.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

March 18, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Parks, Logan, for appellant.

John R. Glenn, Logan, for appellee.

NEELY, Justice:

We granted this appeal in order to illuminate further syl. pt. 7 of Garska v. McCoy, W.Va., 278 S.E.2d 357 (1981) that establishes principles for the award of child custody in domestic relations cases. That syllabus provides:

The concept of a "child of tender years" is somewhat elastic; obviously an infant in the suckling stages is of tender years, while an adolescent fourteen years of age or older...

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