What happens when one parent interferes with custody rights?
Under California law, the law provides that each child is to have frequent and continual contact with both parents. Fortunately, the majority of parents cooperate with each other so this process goes smoothly, however there are some parents who take steps to frustrate the custody and visitation rights of the other parent. At that point the courts usually try to find the underlying reason for the interference. Sometimes the courts resort to contempt power and in some cases when nothing works, I’ve seen the courts place the child with the non custodial parent due to actions of the interfering parent are so aggravated that the only solution is to place the child with the non custodial parent and it has happened.
