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STATE EX REL. JOSEPH v. REDWING

No. 15879.

429 N.W.2d 49 (1988)

STATE of South Dakota, ex rel. Karen A. JOSEPH, formerly Karen A. Christenson Redwing, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Norman REDWING, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided September 14, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Gellhaus, Brown County States Atty., Aberdeen, for plaintiff and appellee.

Philip W. Morgan, Britton, and Jarvis W. Brown, Faulkton, for defendant and appellant.

MILLER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a contempt order in a child support action claiming that the circuit court lacked subject matter jurisdiction by virtue of a prior tribal court divorce. We affirm.

Both parties to this appeal are Indian. Appellant Norman Redwing (Norman) is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe and currently resides on Indian land. According to the stipulation of facts, appellee Karen A. Joseph, formerly Karen A. Redwing (Karen...

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