Ex Parte Brister

801 S.W.2d 833 (1990)

Ex parte Deborah BRISTER, Relator.

No. C-9567.

Supreme Court of Texas.

December 19, 1990.

James M. Whitten, Sinton, for relator.

Mark H. Giles, Corpus Christi, for respondent.

OPINION

RAY, Justice.

In this original habeas corpus proceeding, the trial court held relator, the mother and managing conservator of a minor child, in contempt for her failure to deliver possession of the child to the father for a "period of possession" unilaterally designated by the father under the parties' divorce decree. We hold the provisions of the divorce decree relator was found to have violated…