In Re Leah S.

Opinion

ROGERS, C. J.

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether certain specific steps issued by the trial court to the department of children and families (department) to facilitate the reunification of a minor child and her parents constitute sufficiently clear and unambiguous court orders so as to support a judgment of contempt. The petitioner, the commissioner of children and families, appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which affirmed the trial court’s judgment finding the petitioner in contempt for wilful failure to comply with the trial court’s orders that she imple…