Scott v. Scott

PEDEN, Justice.

Stephen Scott brought this Texas suit for divorce and child custody. His wife, Catherine Scott, had recently moved back to California, and she had initiated a similar suit there. After a hearing, the Texas trial court overruled Mrs. Scott’s motion to the jurisdiction and denied her plea in abatement. She perfected this appeal from the subsequent judgment granting the divorce and awarding custody of the child to the husband. Her position is that the Texas court lacked personal jurisdiction over her and that it should have stayed the proceedings in deference to the previously…