Couser v. Stanton

OPINION

BUTTS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order requiring appellant, Larry Gene Couser to pay child support to his daughter, Debbie Sue Couser, for the months of April and May, 1986. The order appealed from modified a prior order which required appellant to pay child support to the daughter until her eighteenth birthday. 1 Debbie turned eighteen on October 27, 1985. However, the order appealed from was not entered until April 8, 1986. Therefore, we hold that the court was without authority to enter the order because it lost jurisdiction on October 27, 1985, when the daughter became…