Court Opinion

ID: 9557931
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:00:40.328508+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:45.077592
License: Public Domain

FOLEY, J.,
dissenting.
Because of health problems and emotional difficulties, the mother, after having custody of the two girls at all times since the 1966 divorce decree, placed them with the father in 1973. When she recovered her health, emotionally and physically, in 1975, she requested return of the girls. Father refused her and the hearing of May 1975, resulting in this appeal, followed.
*744The father at that time was preparing to move from Oregon to Seattle, Washington, and uproot the girls, then nearly 12 and 14. The girls expressed a preference to live with their mother with whom they had lived seven years since the divorce. They had lived less than two years with the father. I am convinced that the girls’ present preference to live with their mother, the mother’s recovery, the father’s proposed move of the girls to Seattle, constituted a sufficient change of circumstances to warrant returning them to their mother. In my view the best interests of the girls and the stability of their lives would be best promoted by awarding them to their mother.
Lee, J., joins in this dissent.