Cooley v. Moody

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating mother could not be held in contempt for failing to leave child with father's wife where order directed mother to turn child over to father and father was not present for custody transfer
• reversing finding of contempt for mother’s failure to effectuate a transfer of custody where “there is no language in the trial court’s temporary custody order that directs the Mother to do so” even though “[i]t may have been the trial court’s intent” to so order
• “[T]he law also imposes upon the court the requirement to be explicit and precise in its commands if strict compliance is to be exacted in the form of a contempt sanction.”
• “[T]he law affords [the mother] the right to read the order as expressly written because the law also imposes upon the court the requirements to be explicit and precise in its commands if strict compliance is to be exacted in the form of a contempt sanction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).