Carroll v. Blankenship

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

This appeal comes from the denial by the court to order a civil contempt against one parent on the motion of the other for disobedience of a decree of custody.

On dissolution the custody of the two boys of the marriage was given to the father subject to the right of the mother to keep them the first and third weekends of every month. The boys soon wearied of this exchange and refused to be delivered to the custody of the mother. The mother saw this as defiance of the court order by the father and moved the court to punish him for contempt.

The father, on his part,…