Chandler v. Chandler

Benham, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order changing child custody from appellant, the mother, to appellee, the father. The change of custody proceeding, and an associated contempt proceeding, stemmed from appellant’s conduct in taking the child out of Georgia without notice to appellee, a violation of the divorce decree, and in withholding visitation based on an assertion that she was protecting the child from sexual abuse by appellee. After the Court of Appeals denied appellant’s application for discretionary review, we granted the writ of certiorari in order to consider a provision in…