MARQUISS v. MARQUISS

No. 90-184.

837 P.2d 25 (1992)

Janie S. MARQUISS, Appellant (Defendant), v. Gary C. MARQUISS, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Coppede and Lawrence A. Yonkee, Redle, Yonkee & Toner, Sheridan, for appellant.

Dwight F. Hurich of Preuit, Sowada & Hurich, Gillette, for appellee.

Before THOMAS, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and GOLDEN, JJ., and KALOKATHIS, District Judge.


URBIGKIT, Justice.

This court reviews a complex and highly-charged post-divorce child custody and visitation conflict which provides a general jurisdictional field of inquiry.1 The dispositive questions are: (1) whether a Wyoming divorce court has jurisdiction to enforce a non-custodial father's visitation rights when the custodial mother and the litigants' children have resided out-of-state for five years; and (2) if so, how?

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