White v. McDowell

Citations

• 74 Wash. 44
• 132 P. 734
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1994

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Custody and Support of Children — Modification of Decree — Evidence—Sufficiency—Parent and Child. A decree of divorce, which awarded the custody of a child of tender years to the mother, with provisions for support, having been modified, in 1904, upon the mother’s remarriage to a prosperous farmer, so as to relieve the father from payments for support, should not, eight years later, he again modified to compel the father to support and educate the child, where conditions had not materially changed, he had remarried and has a child of his own, and the stepfather is able and willing to provide support as in the past; the duty of a stepfather to support his stepchildren being something more than a mere charity.</p>