Sundstrom v. Sundstrom

¶ 1. Mother appeals from the family court’s order modifying parental rights and responsibilities, and awarding custody of the parties’ two minor children to father. The court found that mother’s “ongoing, intentional, mean-spirited violations” of court orders concerning parent-child contact constituted a material and substantial change of circumstances, and the harm caused by mother’s obstruction of visitation outweighed the harm that could be caused by a change in custody. The court thus concluded that the children’s best interests required that they be removed from mother’s home and placed…