Driggers v. Hayes, 19969
| Decision Date | 10 March 1975 |
| Docket Number | No. 19969,19969 |
| Citation | 264 S.C. 69,212 S.E.2d 579 |
| Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
| Parties | LeRoy DRIGGERS and Kathleen Driggers, Respondents, v. Bobby G. HAYES and Italeen D. Hayes, Appellants. |
George M. Stuckey, Jr., Bishopville, for appellants.
Jacob H. Jennings, of Jennings & Jennings, Bishopville, for respondents.
The sole issue in this action arises out of a controversy between appellants, as parents, and respondents, the maternal grandparents, over the custody of an eleven (11) year old child.
It is agreed by all parties that they are only interested in what is best for the well-being of the child involved.
The testimony establishes that the minor child has lived in the home of the respondents all of her life except three (3) months in early 1966. The appellants moved out of respondents home in 1966 and took one child with them leaving this child and since that time this child has lived entirely with the respondents. They have apparently been good to her and have assumed all responsibility and control of her and have for nine (9) years provided a nice orderly home where she receives love and religious training.
We held in Koon v. Koon, 203 S.C. 556, 560, 28 S.E.2d 89, 90 (1943), that:
We also held in Cutshaw v. Harvey, 223 S.C. 276, 280, 75 S.E.2d 602 (1953) and Williams v. Rogers, 224 S.C. 425, 428, 79 S.E.2d 464 (1954), that 'the paramount consideration is the welfare and best interests of the children.'
The Master and the Trial Judge found that it was to the best interest of the child that her custody be retained by the respondents. The record amply sustains these findings. We concur.
Affirmed.
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