Court Opinion

ID: 9520219
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 01:33:42.902175+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:45:47.317815
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*118Dissenting Opinion
DeBruler, J.
I agree with the opinion of the Second District Court of Appeals that the findings and judgment of the trial court are not supported by sufficient evidence, and that a new trial should be granted, and therefore vote to deny transfer. Even upon consideration of the so-called “essential facts” outlined in eight subparagraphs, quoted in the majority opinion and incorporated from Judge Buchanan’s dissenting opinion, I fail to see how those facts even minimally support the decision of the trial court to change custody from the mother, such custody inquiry focusing as it does upon whether a substantial and material change in conditions affecting the welfare of the child have occurred, and whether such change is of such decisive character as to make a change in custody necessary for the welfare of the child. Huston v. Huston (1971), 256 Ind. 110, 267 N.E.2d 170; Rose v. Rose (1971), 256 Ind. 440, 269 N.E.2d 365; Perdue v. Perdue (1970), 254 Ind. 77, 257 N.E.2d 827; Wible v. Wible (1964), 245 Ind. 235, 196 N.E.2d 571.
Note.—Reported at 311 N.E.2d 807.