Clague v. Clague

BILL BASS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order modifying a divorce decree. We reverse.

The parties were divorced by a decree dated April 20, 1981. Under the decree, the mother was appointed managing conservator of the parties’ two minor children, and the father was appointed possessory conservator with specified rights of access. The mother was ordered not to remove the children from the court's jurisdiction without the consent of the court. In August of 1981, the mother and children moved to Virginia without the court’s consent. She repeatedly refused to permit her ex-husband to visit the…