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MILLER v. MILLER

No. 06-504.

965 A.2d 524 (2008)

2008 VT 86

Michelle M. MILLER v. Keith E. MILLER.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

August 22, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen O'Reilly, Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Rutland, and Sandra L. Paritz, Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., St. Johnsbury, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sigismund J. Wysolmerski of Wysolmerski Law Office P.C., Rutland, for Defendant-Appellee.

Present: DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ., and TEACHOUT, Supr. J., Specially Assigned.

SKOGLUND, J.

¶ 1. Mother appeals from a family court order denying her request to recognize a Canadian child-custody judgment and to relieve her of an earlier contempt adjudication. We hold that the trial court erred in declining to recognize the foreign judgment, and that the contempt order has since become moot. Accordingly, we reverse.

¶ 2. Like many multi-jurisdictional custody disputes, this appeal...

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