Crenshaw v. Crenshaw

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

We granted the discretionary application in this case to consider whether notice by publication to a pro se party satisfies due process when the party’s address is known and to consider the scope of a lawyer’s professionalism duties to a pro se opposing party. Because we are able to decide this case on a narrower basis, we do not reach the broader issues. The record demonstrates that here the notice to the wife, a pro se litigant, in a divorce action involving children was not reasonably designed to insure that she had notice of the trial date and, thus, was…