Smith v. Superior Court

Opinion

ELKINGTON, J.

We review (see Code Civ. Proc., §§ 1067-1077) two adjudications of the San Mateo County Superior Court holding petitioner Carol Lynn Smith (hereafter, for convenience only, Carol) in contempt for disobedience of certain of the court’s orders. The orders concerned visitation rights of Carol’s former husband Richard Morris Lyman III (hereafter, also for convenience only, Richard) with their daughter Michelle.

Our review “ ‘is limited to determining whether there was any substantial evidence to sustain the jurisdiction of the trial court’ ” in making the contempt…