Zeisler Ex Rel. Zeisler v. Zeisler

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

The question raised by this appeal is whether a nonresident father who has been ordered by a Texas divorce decree to make periodic payments for the support of his child is amenable to Texas process served outside the state in a suit by the mother to increase the payments, although none of the parties now resides in Texas. We hold that the father is amenable to suit in Texas and, accordingly, we reverse the trial court’s dismissal of the action for want of jurisdiction.

The parties were formerly residents of Texas. The father left the mother and the child about three…