Brown v. District Court in and for Denver

This an original proceeding under C.A.R. 21, in which petitioner seeks relief in the nature of prohibition from an order of the Denver District Court. We issued our rule to show cause, which we now make absolute.

On March 4, 1975, the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, dissolved the marriage of petitioner Paul Wilson Brown and Joyce Lee Brown (now MacMaster). Custody of the three children of this marriage was given to their mother, with petitioner receiving visitation rights and temporary custody at stated times each year.

The mother and the children moved to Colorado on July 21,…