Mother charged after failing to return child to custodial father
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Visitation on Monday, September 23, 2013. A 36-year-old woman is facing felony charges after she failed to return her child back to the care of her ex-husband, who has custody of the child. Her case should serve as a reminder to all parents in Missouri with child custody and visitation orders in place. In this case, the parents had been fighting for some time over child custody. Over the summer a judge granted the father sole custody. With this ruling, the mother was granted summer visitation. However, the mother violated the terms of the visitation