Baker v. Seaver

McCLOUD, Chief Justice.

The controlling question is whether the court that enters a final judgment, affecting the parent-child relationship, after January 1, 1974, modifying a divorce and child custody judgment entered prior to January 1, 1974, thereafter becomes the court of “continuing jurisdiction”.

Petitioner, Virginia (Baker) Seaver, sued her former husband, respondent, Albert Willis Baker, in Travis County, seeking to be named managing conservator of Terry Mechia Baker, and requesting an increase in child support and modification of visitation rights. Petitioner alleged that “no other…