State Ex Rel. George B. W. v. Kaufman

WORKMAN, Justice:

In this petition for a writ of prohibition and emergency stay of an order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, we grant the writ as moulded and direct that a hearing be held within ten days on the issues of visitation and whether additional examinations should be conducted on the subject child. 1

I. Factual Background

Subsequent to the Respondent Sharon B. W.’s (hereinafter “Respondent”), August 1995 petition for divorce from Petitioner George B.W. (hereinafter “Petitioner”), temporary custody of the parties’ only child, four-year-old Ben W. (hereinafter “the child”), was…