Strahan v. Strahan

The appeal before us raises the question as to whether a district court has jurisdiction to modify a divorce decree following a hearing on an application to punish the husband for contempt, where no pleading containing a petition for modification of the decree has been filed on behalf of the husband.

A decree of divorce was granted to Beverly Strahan, defendant, on her cross-complaint against Theodore P. Strahan, plaintiff; and she was given custody of the four minor children of plaintiff and defendant, subject to the right of reasonable visitation by the father at all reasonable times and…