Wolf v. Wolf

LARSON, Justice.

The Scott County District Court, in reliance on Wood v. Wood, 338 N.W.2d 123 (Iowa 1983), awarded this plaintiff-father actual and punitive damages for the defendant’s tortious interference with the plaintiffs custody 1 rights in the parties’ daughter, Ashley. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

I. Facts and Prior Proceedings.

Timothy Wolf and his former wife, Joan, have been embroiled in a bitter tug-of-war in Arizona and Iowa courts over the physical care of Ashley. Ashley, born in 1985, is now an adult, but the battle continues. The parties divorced in 1990, and…