Carter v. Carter

Nichols, Chief Justice.

The wife appeals from an order finding her in contempt for failure to give temporary custody of her children to a third person as required by an order entered in the divorce action. She contends that she should not have been held in contempt because the temporary custody order is invalid since she previously had dismissed her divorce complaint pursuant to Code Ann. § 81A-141 (a) by filing a written notice of dismissal after the court had announced its ruling on the temporary custody issue but before the court’s temporary custody order or the husband’s counterclaim for…