Robbins v. . Robbins

Defendant’s plea raised the question of the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of Wake County to determine the custody of the child of divorced parents on motion in the action in which the divorce judgment had been rendered. The power of the judge, before or after judgment in a divorce action wherein it is alleged there are children, to make orders respecting their custody, is expressly conferred by the statute G.S. 50-13. The defendant, however, contends that jurisdiction as to the custody of the child in this case had already been acquired by the Superior Court in Craven County under the…