Gutzke v. Gutzke

HIGHERS, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal by Mother, Susan Lynn Friedhoff Gutzke, from an order of the Shelby County Chancery Court denying her motion to dismiss the Petition for Citation for Contempt and Custody filed by Father, William Henry Norbert Gutzke, III. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court possesses jurisdiction to modify the custody arrangement set forth in the court’s earlier consent order.

In 1979, the parties were married in Virginia, where they resided until moving to Colorado shortly thereafter. Their first child was born in Colorado on January 6, 1981. In…