Rapp v. Kizer

Conley Byrd, Justice.

By this proceeding, Petitioner Deborah Fay Rapp, the mother of an illegitimate child, questions the jurisdiction of Respondent, Bernice L. Kizer, Chancellor of the Sebastian County Chancery Court, to entertain a petition by the putative father of the illegitimate child to obtain visitation rights and to fix an amount of support which he should pay for support of said child.

The complaint filed by the putative father shows that prior to the rendition of a divorce on October 30, 1973, he and the petitioner were husband and wife. Subsequent to the rendition of the divorce…