Simmons v. Simmons

During the pendency of a complaint for divorce brought by the wife in Massachusetts, the husband filed an action for divorce in South Carolina. Despite the wife’s request for a continuance on the ground that a prior action for divorce was pending in Massachusetts, and a claim that the South Carolina court did not have jurisdiction, a judge of the Family Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the State of South Carolina on April 13, 1992, “ordered adjudged and *51decreed that the defendant1 is entitled to a divorce.” The court issued no order regarding custody, alimony, support, or division of…