Hopkins v. Hopkins

Hall, Justice.

This is an appeal of a contempt citation involving visitation rights of the noncustodial parent. The major issue is the question of a superior court’s jurisdiction over a custodial dispute.

Subsequent to the parties’ 1972 Elbert County divorce, on December 10,1975, the court issued an order, consented to and participated in by both parties, setting out specific visitation rights for the mother-appellee. In 1976 a dispute arose among the parties over these rights, and the appellee filed a contempt action in the Elbert Superior Court. The trial court found appellant in contempt of…