Kahre v. Kahre

I

INTRODUCTION

The court nullifies its early change-of-custody stay by leaving undisturbed the trial court’s later mid-appeal modifications with contravening provisions. Because — insofar as they affect the premandate access-to-the-children regime — all the trial court’s post-stay orders are clearly coram non judice,1 I *1367must recede from today’s tacit approbation of sheer lawlessness. I write separately to expose the naked nisi prius intrusion into this court’s subject-matter cognizance, which lies concealed beneath today’s deferential silence. I would reach this critical issue by (1) analyzing…