Sharpe v. Sharpe

The unhappy saga we have to relate begins on April 11, 1963, when the circuit court of Adams County divorced the parties and gave custody of their only child, Keith, age 5, to the mother, with the right to “take said child out of the jurisdiction of the court.” She did just that on January 28, 1965, and in so doing, she argues, the court lost jurisdiction to further modify custody. The father, assuming the law to be otherwise — that “out of the jurisdiction” was not synonymous with “ousting jurisdiction” — petitioned for a change of custody. A hearing was held and he was directed to notice…