Fowler v. Fowler

Valeria Frye Walker appeals from a judgment entered by the Jefferson Circuit Court (“the trial court”) finding Walker in direct criminal contempt of court during her representation of Lashundra Lewis Fowler (“the plaintiff’) in a domestic-relations case that was pending before the trial court. We reverse the finding of contempt.

On March 9, 2012, a hearing was held before the trial court in the underlying domestic-relations case regarding a motion filed by Walker requesting that Judge Dorothea Batiste recuse herself and a motion filed by Eddie Fowler II (“the defendant”) to disqualify Walker…