McAninch v. McAninch

VAUGHN, Judge.

The judge was in error when he concluded that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution of the United States deprived the North Carolina court of jurisdiction to consider plaintiff’s action for custody of his minor child. The almost identical question was decided in May v. Anderson, 345 U.S. 528 (1953). In May, the husband, wife and children lived in Wisconsin. Upon reaching a decision to separate, the wife took the children and moved to Ohio. The husband obtained a divorce and custody of the children in a Wisconsin proceeding. The only service of process upon the…