Pund v. Pund

Appellant Theodore Pund’s (father) petition for a change of child custody was dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. On appeal Pund contends that the trial court’s decision was in error.

■ Pund sought to modify a dissolution of marriage decree under which his former wife, respondent-appellee Virginia Kay Pund, (mother) obtained custody of their two daughters. The decree was entered by Spencer Circuit Court on July 18, 1974. The father filed his petition, requesting full time custody of the children, on January 2, 1976, in Dubois Circuit Court. Both parties apparently had moved and…