Brashers v. Green

BOWLING, Justice,

for the Court:

These consolidated appeals involve questions of jurisdiction and procedure of the Mississippi courts to hear matters involving custody of children residing in this state whose custody was first adjudicated by a foreign decree.

Appellant, Linda Brashers, and appellee, James Green, were residents of Marengo County, Alabama, when the proper court of that county rendered an agreed decree granting a divorce and decreeing the custody and support of the minor child of the parties. By its decree of December 3, 1976, the Alabama court granted custody to ap-pellee, James…