NEWSOM v. NEWSOM

Nos. 07-CA-58966, 07-CA-59632.

557 So.2d 511 (1990)

Leslie Karen NEWSOM v. Henry Eugene NEWSOM.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 14, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin T. Smith, David R. Smith, Smith Smith Tate & Cruthird, Poplarville, Grady F. Tollison, Jr., Tollison & Alexander, S. Allan Alexander, Patterson Tollison & Alexander, Oxford, for appellant.

James R. Hayden, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

Robert R. Marshall, Erik M. Lowrey, Hattiesburg, for amicus curiae.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and PITTMAN and BLASS, JJ.


BLASS, Justice, for the court:

Leslie Karen Newsom (Karen) and Henry Eugene Newsom (Eugene) were divorced on April 16, 1986. Karen was awarded custody of Kathryn, then two years and four months old, and Adam, then eight months old, subject to visitation by Eugene. On July 10, 1986, Karen filed a Petition to Modify the visitation, charging Eugene with physical abuse of the children. Erik Lowery was appointed guardian ad litem on May 18, 1987. There was an extended...

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