Legal Opinion
Leonard v. Paxson
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 20, 1983No. C-2005PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGEE, Justice.
Relator, Sheryl Leonard, seeks a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Sam Paxson, Judge of the 210th District Court of El Paso County, to transfer proceedings on her motion to modify the child support provisions of a previous divorce decree to Galveston County. We conditionally grant the writ.
In 1981, Sheryl and her former husband, Morton Leonard, entered into an “Agreement Incident to Divorce” which was approved by Judge Paxson and was incorporated into the court’s final decree of divorce. Paragraph 6.09 of the Agreement states that the child support provisions contained…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Rogers v. RogersCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1976
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