Smith v. Necaise

ROBERTSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

This is an appeal by Mrs. Barbara Ann Necaise Smith from a decree of the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Harrison County, holding that once an appeal had been perfected by Necaise to this Court from a decree of the chancery court changing the custody and support of minor children that the lower court lost jurisdiction to hear and decide another petition to modify while the appeal is still pending in this Court.

Appellant and Appellee, formerly husband and wife, are the parents of two children, Derrick Scott, a 10-year-old boy, and…