Jewell v. Jewell

Although I concur with that portion of the Court’s opinion that refuses to recognize or enforce the Dominican Republic divorce decree, for the reasons explained below I respectfully dissent from those portions of the Court’s opinion that address whether the plaintiff-husband was estopped to challenge the Family Court’s jurisdiction to hear and grant the defendant-wife’s application for a temporary restraining order and whether the Family Court properly, found him in contempt of that restraining order.

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Lack of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction

The Court holds that by filing for divorce here and…