Child Custody and Children’s Unease with a Parent’s Transsexual Associate
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing an Indiana Appellate ruling where a father sought to have custody of the children modified, because the mother persisted in exposing the children to a transsexual against their wishes. The post begins:
I’m not sure what the right answer ought to be here, but I thought it would be worth discussing; the case is Lowhorn v. Lowhorn, 2008 WL 2839485 (Ind. App. July 24). The trial court switched custody from mother’s having primary physical custody (with father having visitation rights) and both parents having joint legal custody, to the father having sole legal and physical custody, with mother having visitation rights. At the time of the lower court hearing, the boy was nearly 14, and the girl was nearly 10.
The court of appeals reversed.