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TERRELL v. TERRELL

578 S.W.2d 637 (1979)

Burnace Wilson TERRELL, Petitioner-Defendant, v. Margot Lamanna Drew TERRELL, Respondent-Plaintiff.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dick L. Lansden, Nashville, for petitioner-defendant.

William R. Willis, Jr., Marian F. Harrison, Nashville, for respondent-plaintiff.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

The parties to this domestic relations action are residents of Tennessee. Both concede that they were validly divorced by a decree awarded to the husband in the Civil Court of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on June 3, 1974. In that action the wife was represented by counsel, a personal appearance was entered for her, and she submitted voluntarily to the jurisdiction of the court.

Despite that fact, however, the wife instituted the...

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