How have courts dealt with a violation of a child custody order?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Watson, C088684 (Cal. App. 2020):

In Flora, the defendant was found guilty of felony violation of a child custody order. (People v. Flora, supra, 228 Cal.App.3d at p. 664.) Briefly stated, the pertinent facts were that the defendant knew his wife was granted temporary custody of their child by a Washington court, kidnapped the child in California by shoving his wife aside and driving off in her car with the child in the passenger seat, took the child to Costa Rica,

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