Stanley v. Stanley

OWEN, WILLIAM C.,'Jr., Senior Judge.

Appellee, appellant’s former wife, was awarded judgment for child support ar-rearage. Because we find that under the facts of this case it was an abuse of discretion to award arrearage for the fourteen months during which appellee retained the physical custody of the children in willful and persistent defiance of a court order transferring custody of the children to appellant, we reverse that portion of the judgment, as well as certain of the taxed costs.

When the parties were divorced in 1987, the court approved their marital settlement agreement. It…