Thompson v. Thompson

Defendant Frank Thompson, Jr. appeals a decision of the Bennington Family Court, which first held his former wife, plaintiff Mary Thompson, in contempt for noncompliance with a child visitation order and then transferred the case to New York because it is a more convenient forum. We conclude that the court erred in dismissing the case in Vermont, in failing to exercise its discretion with respect to a contempt sanction and in failing to adjudicate defendant’s motion to hold the child’s former counsel in contempt. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for further proceedings in accordance with…