State Ex Rel. Meade v. Marshall Superior Court II

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Does a court which dissolved a marriage and determined child custody and visitation maintain continuing jurisdiction which prevents another court from entertaining petitions for protective orders which effectively modify the divorcee decree? We hold that such protective orders must be filed in the court which heard the divorce, absent emer-geney or other good cause for going to a second court.

Facts and Case History

In September 1991, Teri Lee Meade and Paul E. Levett were divorced in the Marshall Cireuit Court. The court ordered joint custody of their children, Whitney…