Champion v. Kinney

FANNING, Justice.

Emory Champion and Ann Champion were divorced on March 6, 1967, by judgment of the District Court of Bowie County, 102nd Judicial District of Texas, in Cause No. 02205S, and Ann Champion was awarded custody of their three minor children. Ann Champion later married Sam Kinney. On August 6, 1969, Emory Champion filed a petition seeking a change of custody, alleging changed conditions. This petition was docketed in the 102nd District Court under the same number assigned to the original divorce case. No citation, as contemplated by Rule 101, Tex.R.Civ.P., was ever served upon Ann…