HOWARD v. COUNTY COURT OF CRAIGHEAD COUNTY

No. 80-225.

613 S.W.2d 386 (1981)

Charles Kirk HOWARD, Appellant, v. COUNTY COURT OF CRAIGHEAD COUNTY, Arkansas, Dennis Gilliam, Judge, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied April 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barrett, Wheatley, Smith & Deacon, Jonesboro, for appellant.

Zolper & Everett, Jonesboro, for appellee.


ADKISSON, Chief Justice.

The issue presented in this case is whether an Arkansas court has personal jurisdiction over a nonresident putative father in a paternity action where the child was conceived and born in Arkansas and the mother and child reside in Arkansas.

This appeal is from a circuit court order denying a petition for a writ of prohibition to the appellee, Craighead County Court. The appellee had upheld...

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