In re the Marriage of Gahr

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the Eleventh Judicial District, Kalispell, Montana, denying petitioner’s motion for disqualification of the trial judge for bias, and assessing costs and attorney fees. Respondent did not file a brief with this Court. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

On August 31, 1983, Gerald Lawrence Gahr filed a petition for dissolution and custody. He alleged that he and his wife, Lucinda, and their three children had just returned from a five-year residence in Canada, and that he feared that Lucinda was planning to take the children back to…