Coddington

Number 25820 is an appeal from an order made August 24, 1961, changing custody of an 11-year-old girl from sole custody of the mother to joint custody, and giving physical custody to the father during the school year 1961-62.

Number 26188 is an appeal from an order refusing to order defendant to pay additional counsel fees to plaintiff’s attorneys.

The parties married May 25, 1949, and their daughter, Linda, was born April 18, 1950. In 1954 plaintiff obtained by default an interlocutory decree of divorce whereby she was awarded custody of Linda. The final decree was entered a year later. In 1956 plaintiff married her present husband and in 1959 moved to Citrus Heights, an unincorporated community in Sacramento County, where the husband had employment. Their household included four children: Linda, two daughters of the husband by a previous marriage, and an older son of plaintiff by an earlier marriage.

In late 1958 or early 1959 defendant married his present wife and established a home in San Gabriel. She has no children.

In November 1960 plaintiff obtained an order to show cause for an increase in support for Linda and for a specific delineation of defendant’s visitation…