In Re Miller

CARVER, Justice.

Relator seeks a writ of habeas corpus. The principal issue is whether a Texas court in which an action is filed under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) has continuing jurisdiction to the exclusion of another Texas court in which a second URESA suit is filed. We hold that the first Texas court entertaining a URESA suit has continuing and exclusive jurisdiction and that an order of contempt and commitment of relator by a second Texas court was void. Accordingly, relator is discharged.

Relator and his ex-wife were divorced in 1966 in Oklahoma with relator’s…