Court Opinion

ID: 9773950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:04:54.411664+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:59.796349
License: Public Domain

SMITH, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the result. There is no evidence of change of conditions in the circumstances of the father, the custodian parent. Therefore, the custody should not be changed. Even though there is substantial evidence showing changed conditions for the better in the circumstances of the non-custodian parent, such changed conditions would not warrant a holding that it would be to the best interest of the child to change the custody, where, as here, the custodian parent is a suitable and proper person to have the care and custody of the child. The prospective improvement in the conditions of the non-custodian parent should have no material bearing on the question of custody unless it is made clear by the terms of the original judgment that custody was denied the non-custodian parent because of some temporary disability, and then only upon a showing that such disability no longer exists.