Opinion
Gen. No. 10,280. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed October 14, 1948 Released for publication November 2, 1948
DIVORCE, § 126 — change of habitat of children. Where husband obtained uncontested divorce from wife on ground of adultery and the wife did not challenge the propriety of order entered shortly after the divorce decree, declaring the children of the parties to be dependent and placing them in a denominational institution, the county court, under all the evidence, was not authorized subsequently, on wife's petition, to remove the children to an institution of another religious faith, even though the wife might, as she contended, be inconvenienced in regard to accessibility for visitation, by having the children in the institution in which they were originally placed.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the County Court of Whiteside county; the Hon. WALTER J. STEVENS, Judge, presiding.
Reversed in part, affirmed in part. Heard in this court at the May term, 1948.
Sheldon Brown, Sim T. Mee and Alexander L. Haglund, for appellants;
Besse Besse and L.L. Winn, for appellee.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed October 14, 1948; released for publication November 2, 1948.