Hawley v. Shaver

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment which denied to appellant the immediate custody of two minor children.

The appellant, mother of the children, was granted a divorce and custody of her infant children by a court of competent jurisdiction in the state of Connecticut in 1971. In violation of the order of custody, the appellee removed two of the children from the United States to England for a period of more than two years and did not return them to their mother until December 1973. At that time the appellant was residing in the state of New York and the children made their…