Court Opinion

ID: 9586776
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:14:55.290391+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:51.030229
License: Public Domain

*367On Motion for Rehearing.
The motion insists that, since the father’s right of custody is not denied, the mother’s consent to custody by a third party is binding upon her. Without deciding whether the purported relinquishment of custody agreement by the mother was valid, the right of the parents to the custody of their minor children is a joint right. Neither can substitute a third person for himself and thus divide custody between one parent and such third person. Without the consent of both parents a third person can not gain the right of custody. The consent of any one parent is a nullity.

Motion for rehearing denied.

All the Justices concur.