State Ex Rel. Stewart v. District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition, supervisory control, or other appropriate relief in the dissolution of a marriage between members of the Crow Tribe. Respondent filed a memorandum brief opposing the petition, and upon receiving a reply brief from petitioner, we assume jurisdiction for decisional purposes without oral argument.

Petitioner Donald Stewart filed a divorce action against Tana Cordelia Stewart in the Tribal Court in August 1979, requesting custody of the couple’s two children, Donald, age 3, and Oli-Ann, age 2. There is no showing of any service of said action upon Tana…