Legal Opinion
Coles v. Coles
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 17, 1964No. 3420PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Associate Judge.
This is an appeal by the wife from an order holding her in contempt of court and committing her to jail for forty-eight hours for violating a pendente lite custody order. The facts necessary to an understanding of the appeal are as follows.
On May 29, 1963, the husband filed a complaint for a limited divorce and custody of the infant child of the parties. Thereafter the wife counterclaimed for a limited divorce, alimony and custody of the child. On October 29, 1963, the case came on for trial and on October 30, the trial court entered an order, the relevant parts of…
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- Knaus v. KnausSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Beghian v. BeghianSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
- Duell v. DuellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
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3Cited by3 opinions
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