Martin v. Martin

In this petition for certiorari the sole question presented is whether or not a circuit court in Florida has jurisdiction to award separate maintenance for the wife and support for minor children where neither wife nor husband is a bona fide resident or citizen of Florida at the time the complaint is filed.

The complaint shows that the respondent husband and petitioner wife were residents of Columbus, Georgia, and had two little girls, seven and three years old; that the husband abandoned his wife and children September 3, 1958, and that account of his [husband’s] fault they have continued to…