Pyles v. Knight

FICKLING, Associate Judge:

This case involves a question of the trial court’s jurisdiction to determine the custody of a minor child. Appellee (the mother), residing in the District of Columbia, requested the Domestic Relations Branch of the trial court to issue a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum commanding appellant (the father), who resides in Maryland, to produce Theresa Knight, their three-year-old child, before a judge of the court. The father and mother are unmarried and the child lives in Connecticut with her paternal grandmother. The writ was served upon the father at his place of…