Clark v. Routt

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

When plaintiff sued for divorce defendant was served only by publication and the divorce decree entered April 16, 1968, awarded her, inter alia, the care and custody of the two minor children born of the marriage but made no allowance for child *657maintenance because the court lacked jurisdiction to do so. Beckmann v. Beckmann, 358 Mo. 1029, 1034(2), 218 S.W.2d 566, 570(10), 9 A.L.R.2d 428, 433 (banc). On July 6, 1968, plaintiff filed (1) a motion to modify the decree to provide her “a reasonable amount of monthly child support,” 1 and (2) a common law action to recover…