Mintz v. Mintz

BRASWELL, Judge.

This case concerns a domestic confrontation between mother and father over forced visitation of their 11-year-old child with the father. The trial judge had ordered that the mother would be incarcerated upon the father’s oral report to the sheriff of her noncompliance with visitation. As a result of that order the plaintiff-mother appeals. The issue before the court is the validity of the trial court’s order of 2 July 1982. We hold the order to be invalid and remand for a new hearing.

The matter arose through the defendant-father’s motion in the cause in a divorce action which…