Scheer v. District Court

This is an original proceeding in prohibition in which petitioner demands that the district court be enjoined from entertaining a case which arose under the Reciprocal Support Act (C.R.S. ’53, 43-2-1 to 43-2-16). The essential theory upon which the relief is sought is that the district court of Adams County had previously assumed jurisdiction of a divorce action instituted by petitioner and that it thereby acquired exclusive jurisdiction over the questions of support and custody of the children.

The facts in the record show that Barbara J. Scheer and the petitioner had been married; there are…