Lewis v. Sowers

¶1 In August 1995, James Lewis filed a petition in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, to establish paternity, custody, and visitation rights as the father of then three-year-old B.E.S. In June 1997, Lewis filed a motion for contempt and for specified visitation on the grounds that the child’s mother, Melissa Sowers (now known as Melissa Greene and hereinafter referred to as Sowers) had denied him reasonable visitation. Sowers later filed a motion asking that the District Court decline to exercise continuing jurisdiction over the matter. The court denied Sowers’ motion to…