Court Opinion

ID: 9685756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 15:01:01.458547+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:09.977676
License: Public Domain

MESCHKE, Justice,
concurring.
I share the trial court’s frustration in trying to enforce visitation rights against a recalcitrant parent now living in another *861state. While I agree with Justice Levine that assessment of self-executing prospective contempt penalties for future violations of a visitation decree is not appropriate, I also think that there must be other and better ways to enforce visitation than through the statutory contempt procedure. Consider, for example, Gravning v. Gravning, 389 N.W.2d 621 (N.D.1986). I hope that neither the practicing bar nor the trial courts read this decision as foreclosing other approaches which we do not consider today.