Holt v. Holt
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. David W. Carroll, Chancellor. There is no doubt but what the court rendering the original decree could'have provided for the care of the children and have decreed that the father should pay so much for the support of the children, although they were taken temporarily from his custody.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. David W. Carroll, Chancellor. There is no doubt but what the court rendering the original decree could'have provided for the care of the children and have decreed that the father should pay so much for the support of the children, although they were taken temporarily from his custody. Then, did the court, under a supplemental petition, filed at the same term at which the decree was rendered, have jurisdiction to make a supplemental decree? We contend that it did have, and cite in support of this view Plaster v. Plaster, Pll., 890; Plaster v. Plaster,…
1Opinion of the CourtSirmi, J.
On the twenty-eighth of January,-1880, Allen Holt obtained a divorce from his wife Cora, in the Pulaski Chancery Court, on the ground of her desertion of him. The care and custody of their two infant children were awarded to the mother until they should severally arrive at the age of six years, and thereafter to the father. No provision was made in the decree as to who should defray the expenses of rearing the children whilst they were in charge of the mother.
More than two years after the rendition of this decree, Mrs. Holt filed her petition in the same court, alleging that she had paid out…
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