Application of Pierce

Walt and Judy Pierce, parents of Katherine Frances Pierce, petitioned this Court for writ of supervisory control or other appropriate writ to secure the custody of Katherine. We deny the relief requested.

On November 29, 1978, Katherine Frances Pierce petitioned the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District, County of Fergus, under the provision of section 41-5-921, MCA, to place her with her maternal grandparents, Burton T. and Frances E. Raw, at Garneill, Montana. Her petition noted that on November 20, 1978, she ran away from her parental home in Powell, Wyoming. It alleged that she had…