Court Opinion

ID: 9825820
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 14:07:16.317017+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:23.309792
License: Public Domain

MoFaddin, J., concurring. There are previous holdings of this Court which cause me to vote to reverse the Chancery Court in the case at bar. These are: 1. Where the mother has never abandoned the child, the custody of a child of tender years will not be taken from the mother solely because of her infidelity to the husband. Some such cases are: Longinotti v. Longinotti, 169 Ark. 1001, 277 S. W. 41; and Blain v. Blain, 205 Ark. 346, 168 S. W. 2d 807. 2. Here the paternal grandmother, who was awarded the custody of the child, was not a party to the record. We held, in West v. Griffin, 207 Ark. 367, 180 S. W. 2d 839, that it was error to award a child’s custody to one who was not a party to the record. Because of the holdings, as above listed, I concur in the result'reached by the majority in the case at bar.