State Ex Rel. Butler v. Morgan

This is an appeal of a child custody matter in which the circuit court issued an order granting a writ of habeas corpus directing the mother to deliver custody of two children whose ages were AVz and 6 years at the time of the hearing, to the father based on an Arizona modification of an Arizona decree of dissolution of marriage. Defendant contends that (1) habeas corpus was an improper means to enforce an out-of-state dissolution decree, and (2) the circuit court erred in refusing to conduct a full evidentiary hearing on the merits.

The parties’ marriage was dissolved in Arizona on February…