Strid v. Converse

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim. We accepted the case upon certification from the court of appeals.

The plaintiff, Patti Strid, and her husband, Dean Strid, were divorced in 1977. Pursuant to the divorce judgment custody of the minor children was awarded to Patti Strid, and Dean Strid was afforded visitation on weekends and alternate holidays.

In March of 1979, Mrs. Strid signed a petition alleging that her husband abused his visitation rights by consuming alcoholic beverages and requested that his visitation…