R. H. v. M. H.

Summary

The court held that a custody order improperly delegated judicial authority by allowing the custodial father, after consulting the child's therapist, to suspend the mother's visitation indefinitely based on his own determination of harm. The court distinguished permissible scheduling adjustments from an impermissible transfer of authority to eliminate a parent's visitation right and reversed the custody modification insofar as it authorized that delegation. Chief Justice Robinson, joined by Justice Mullins, concurred in the judgment but would have permitted narrowly limited cancellation of an individual scheduled visit in extraordinary circumstances involving a demonstrated risk of harm.