In Re the Marriage of Tell v. Tell

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

This ease involves the consequences of a private, extrajudicial agreement between divorced parents to give custody of their two minor children to the father instead of the mother as ordered by the judgment and decree. The trial court granted respondent Patricia Tell’s motion for $2,000 in child support arrearages, found Wilbern Tell in contempt for failure to pay child support, and ordered him to be jailed for 60 days if he failed to purge the contempt by paying within two months. Wilbern Tell appeals, claiming he had actual custody of the two children during the period…