Seymour v. Seymour

Lewis, Justice:

The issues in this appeal involve, basically, the question of whether the lower court was in error in according full faith and credit to a default divorce, child custody, and support decree, issued on January 22, 1970 by the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, in favor of the respondent-wife against the appellant-husband.

The Kansas decree recites that the parties were married on October 21, 1960, in Laurens County, South Carolina, and two children were born of the marriage. It appears that the wife instituted a divorce action and obtained the default divorce, child…