McClendon v. Superior Court

MOLLOY, Judge.

The petitioner has applied to this court for a writ of prohibition, seeking to prohibit the respondent-court from proceeding further in a pending cause insofar as the proceeding might affect the care, custody and control of a minor child, aged thirteen years. This petition for special writ presents problems arising from inconsistent orders as to the custody of this child entered by the same court in two different pending causes, the one a divorce action and the other a juvenile proceeding.

Consideration of the question of jurisdiction necessitates an outline of the antecedent…