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PATRICK v. BYERLEY

Record No. 831852.

325 S.E.2d 99 (1985)

Nina Sue PATRICK v. Linda Lou BYERLEY.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Cody, Jr., Lebanon, for appellant.

Ford C. Quillen and Suzanne K. Fulton, Gate City; Randall A. Eads, Lebanon, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is a child custody dispute between the child's natural mother, Nina Sue Patrick, and his former stepmother, Linda Lou Byerley. The trial court awarded Byerley custody of the child, Christian Lee Alexander (Chris), after finding, inter alia, that Patrick voluntarily abandoned her son and that it is in his best interest that Byerley be awarded his custody. The question presented in this appeal is whether the evidence supports these findings...

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