RADFORD v. MATCZUK

[No. 78, September Term, 1960.]

223 Md. 483 (1960)

164 A.2d 904

RADFORD v. MATCZUK

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur L. Rhoads, Jr., with whom was D. Franklin Wherley on the brief, for the appellant.

Patrick A. O'Doherty and William A. Hegarty for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves the narrow but difficult problem of deciding whether the chancellor was correct when he struck from a divorce decree the previously granted right of a natural father to visit his teenage son, who has been in the custody of his mother since birth.

The agreed statement of facts informs us that the parties to this appeal were married in 1946 while the father was in the Armed Forces. (The natural...

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