State Ex Rel. Griffin v. District Court of Fifth District

URBIGKIT, Chief Justice.

Upon application of petitioner John Scott Griffin (father), this court issued an Alternative Writ of Mandamus and Prohibition on December 23, 1991. The father sought to prohibit the Wyoming district court from exercising jurisdiction in a child custody proceeding involving his one-year-old son, Spencer Bryce Griffin (child), and the boy’s mother, Melissa V. Presnell (mother). The writ addressed the custody jurisdiction of the Wyoming district court as to whether it was in conflict with or alternative to a Virginia court where a proceeding for custody was also pending.

We…