Pettiette v. Morrow

*242OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

The controlling question in this case is whether the trial court retained continuing jurisdiction over the custody of a child after the managing conservator and child moved to another state. The trial court granted the non-resident’s motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction, and the resident parent appeals from that judgment. We affirm.

The record shows that the parties were divorced in Texas in 1974 and that under the terms of the divorce decree, appellee was named managing conservator of their minor child. More than six months after appellee and the child had…