DIVISION OF FAMILY SERVICES v. ELLIS

No. WD 47163.

870 S.W.2d 463 (1994)

DIVISION OF FAMILY SERVICES, State of Missouri, Christina Marie Smelser, By and Through Her Next Friend, Leah Bernice (Smelser) Mack and Leah Bernice (Smelser) Mack, Individually, Respondents, v. Rudy Lynn ELLIS, et al., Defendants, and Bernice E. Young, Intervenor/Appellant, and Arthur Lanney Mack, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

February 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Keith Holdsworth, Liberty, for appellant.

John R. Sanderford, Kansas City, for Leah Bernice (Smelser) Mack and Arthur Lanney Mack.

John D. Harding, Cape Girardeau, guardian ad litem.

Before BRECKENRIDGE, P.J., and KENNEDY and LOWENSTEIN, JJ.


KENNEDY, Judge.

This is a grandmother's appeal from a judgment of the circuit court modifying, and restricting, her rights of visitation with her three grandchildren as provided in an earlier order.

Grandmother also appeals from the judgment dismissing her petition for contempt against her daughter and her daughter's husband, for their alleged contumacious violation of the order granting visitation rights to grandmother. The alleged contumacious action consisted...

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