Mena v. Mena

KRUCKER, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a divorce decree granting custody of the parties’ children to the wife-appellee (defendant-counter-claimant below), who was also awarded a divorce. The appellant-husband was the plaintiff below. The parties will hereinafter be referred to as husband and wife.

The question raised by this appeal is the jurisdiction of the divorce court to award custody of children who were under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court at the time of the divorce court’s decree.

The facts here are that on February 4, 1969, the husband filed a complaint for divorce, to which…