Bethea v. McDonald

BRASWELL, Judge.

For her failure to comply with the terms of visitation in a custody order, the defendant-mother in a civil proceeding was held in contempt of court and ordered into the Richmond County Jail for thirty days. The defendant on appeal contends that the trial court did not possess in personam jurisdiction over her to enter such a contempt order and that the findings of fact and conclusions of law within the contempt order are not supported by the evidence.

The plaintiff-father and defendant-mother are the parents of a minor child born out of wedlock. On 7 May 1981, while the…