Hill v. Briggs

Appellant and appellee were man and wife and were residents of Mobile County, Alabama, when, on April 3, 1946, they were divorced by a decree of the Alabama court. Appellant, the father, was awarded custody of the two minor sons and appellee, the mother, was awarded custody of the minor daughter. No provision was made in the Alabama decree for any support for the minor daughter. Thereafter, on August 8,1953, appellee, *47who had remarried, filed a petition in the Chancery Conrt of Noxnbee Connty, Mississippi, alleging that she was a resident of Kemper County, Mississippi, and that appellant was…