A married businessman and an unmarried local actress lived together without the benefit of marriage. From their union, two children were born. After some time, the couple began to argue about the actress resuming her career and things went downhill from there. The couple parted ways but agreed that while the kids stayed with the mother during the week, they would spend their weekends with their father. But eventually, the mother did not allow the children to spend the weekends with their father because he often “engaged in gambling and womanizing which she feared could affect the moral and social values of the children.” The father filed a petition for custodial rights over the children.