Legal Opinion

In Re the Marriage of Crew

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided June 19, 1996No. 95-781PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

NEUMAN, Justice.

This appeal by petitioner Kathryn Ann Lowe challenges the district court’s ruling that her former husband’s contacts with Iowa are insufficient to confer personal jurisdiction over him in this action to modify their dissolution of marriage decree. We affirm.

The facts are not disputed. Petitioner and respondent, William Allen Crew (“Bill”), were both California residents when they married in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1974. They continued to reside in California where their two children were bom. The parties’ marriage was dissolved in 1986. The California decree awarded custody of…

2Cases cited14 opinions

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  2. Hanson v. DencklaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  3. Milliken v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  4. Kulko v. Superior Court of Cal., City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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