Jones v. Jones

The only issue in this appeal is the scope of the statute that permits the Superior Court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant with regard to the support of children. The trial court rendered a decree of divorce on a complaint filed by the plaintiff, Mary Jane Jones, without then having personal jurisdiction over the defendant, Charles Edward Jones. Ten years later, when the defendant had been served with actual notice of the pendency of a motion to open and modify the judgment, *288the court amended its judgment to order the defendant to make periodic child support…