ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:
I.
This appeal arises from a charge of indirect or constructive criminal contempt leveled against a Gulf Coast lawyer. In the court below the accused was found to have counseled his client to violate a child custody decree by pretermitting some of her ex-husband's visitation rights. For reasons explained below, we reverse and render.
An important feature of the proceedings below involved the chancellor's occupying...
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