125 Wash. 477 | Wash. | 1923
The parties hereto were husband and wife prior to May 21,1920. On that date the superior court of Pierce county gave the respondent (plaintiff there) a divorce. The decree gave to her the care and custody of their son, a child now past six years of age. It further provided that the appellant (defendant there) should have “the right and privilege of visiting
It will not be necessary here to recite any more of the details of the testimony. We think the trial court was right in modifying the decree so as to relieve appellant from any further payments to respondent for her maintenance, and was also right in refusing to modify it with reference to the amount to be paid by appellant for the maintenance of his child. But, under all of the circumstances, we are of the opinion that
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded for the trial court to make an additional modification to the original decree of divorce so that it will require respondent annually, until the further order of the court, during the summer school vacation, upon the request of the appellant, to permit the minor child to visit the appellant for a period of not less than six weeks, the respondent to fix the particular period or periods constituting such six weeks during each summer vacation. The appellant will be required to pay the costs of this appeal.
Main, C. J., Mackintosh, Holcomb, and Mitchell, JJ., concur.