Prater v. Wheeler

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

The final divorce decree of the parties awarded permanent custody of the parties’ 14-year-old son and his seven-year-old brother to the appellant-father with certain visitation rights to the appelleemother. The mother filed an action for contempt for the father’s alleged wilful failure to abide by the final judgment and decree of divorce by wilfully interfering with her visitation and, in particular, the father allegedly claimed that the older minor child does not have to visit with the petitioner-mother because the said child is 14 years of age. After a hearing,…