Jones v. Larkins

STOULIG, Judge.

This matter is before us on a writ of certiorari from a judgment of the district court maintaining the exceptions filed by the defendant-mother that it lacked jurisdiction to inquire into the custody of minor children physically present in the Parish of Orleans.

Briefly the facts are that the defendant was granted the custody of her two sons, ages 14 and 11 years, in a divorce proceeding in Marion County, State of Indiana, in 1970. Subsequently the defendant remarried and moved with her husband to Pasca-goula, Mississippi, where she is presently residing. Allegedly on April 26,…