Legal Opinion
Hays v. Gama
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided April 25, 2003No. CV-02-0316-PRPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HURWITZ, Justice.
' ¶ 1 This case involves the dissolution of a marriage and a hotly contested child custody dispute. We granted review to consider whether certain contempt sanctions imposed on a party for disobeying an order improperly interfered with the superior court’s duty to determine the best interests of the child in awarding custody.
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¶ 2 On June 9, 2000, Elizabeth K. Hays (“Mother”) filed a petition in superior court to dissolve her marriage to Donald T. Hays (“Father”). The couple had a five-year-old daughter (“Daughter”), and the issue of child custody became the subject of…
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