Rosa v. Rosa

Appellant mother, who, lives in Connecticut, did not return the parties’ children to the father in Florida after summer visitation. This required the husband to seek relief in Florida, and eventually the mother returned the children. She then filed a motion for modification of the judgment of dissolution in Florida.

The trial court awarded the father attorney’s fees which he incurred in the proceedings necessitated by the mother’s wrongful refusal to return the children, because the court found the mother was in bad faith, and in addition required the mother to pay the fees before she could go…