CARPENTER v. CARPENTER

No. 11468.

240 So.2d 13 (1970)

John Woodward CARPENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Georgia Antoine CARPENTER, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stagg, Cady & Beard, by Roy L. Beard, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellant.

Love, Rigby, Dehan & Love, by Samuel P. Love, Jr., Shreveport, for defendant-appellee.

Before AYRES, BOLIN, and PRICE, JJ.


AYRES, Judge.

This is an action by a father for modification of a judgment for child support. From a judgment maintaining a declinatory exception and plea to the jurisdiction of the court, plaintiff appealed.

The question presented is whether or not, as against a party over whom the court had personal jurisdiction in an original proceeding in which an award was made for child support, the court's power to modify the award may be exercised though

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