Barstad v. Barstad

The trial court in a divorce decree gave petitioner custody of her young daughter, Tanya; since then, postdivorce proceedings have been stormy, protracted and expensive. Petitioner, on writ of certiorari, now seeks review of the superior court’s order dismissing her petition for modification which denied her restoration of custody and awarded her former husband judgment for costs and attorney’s fees in the amount of $1,757.65, and made payment thereof a condition precedent to her bringing “any future suits for change of custody.”

December 20, 1965, the Superior Court for King County granted…