Varsha P. Bhatt a/k/a Varsha Y. Bhatt v. Padmanabh Bhatt

Custody: Exchange of physical custody: Contempt

CSA No. 0389, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported.

Opinion by Kehoe, J. Filed: April 29, 2014.

Appeal from Montgomery County. Affirmed.

RecordFax #14-0429-00, 16 pages.

While the Custody Order did not specify a transfer location, the circuit court did not err in finding that mother’s insistence on exchanging custody at father’s residence — despite a no-trespass order against her and father’s willingness to go to any other location mother chose — was part of a larger pattern of behavior by mother designed to frustrate father’s rights under the order, and finding mother in contempt as a result.

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