Application of Lavis

LOCKWOOD, Vice Chief Justice:

The petitioner is the mother of four children, aged three, five, seven and ten years of age. The respondent is their father.

Under a divorce decree in California, the custody of the children was first awarded to the mother and later to the father. The mother came to Arizona with the children and the father initiated habeas corpus proceedings, Case No. 161858, in the Superior Court of Maricopa County to regain their custody.

The Superior Court of Maricopa County found for the father and ordered that the children be restored to him. The order was signed on the 21st…