Suleiman v. Yunis

Safa Suleiman (“Former Wife”) appeals both the trial court’s emergency ex parte order on Basem Yunis’s (“Former Husband”) motion for return of children and the order denying her emergency motion to vacate the ex parte order. The net effect of these two orders was to modify the parties’ timesharing responsibilities.1 We reverse because we conclude that Former Wife was denied due process and because there was insufficient evidence to modify timesharing.

The parties’ marriage was dissolved by a final judgment rendered on January 22, 2008. The parties were awarded shared parental responsibility of…