DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES v. MARQUIS

No. 92-CA-0817.

630 So.2d 331 (1993)

MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES v. Steven Alan MARQUIS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied February 10, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byron Hughes, Jackson, for appellant.

Benjamin E. Griffith, Griffith & Griffith, Cleveland, for appellee.

Before PRATHER, P.J., and SULLIVAN and JAMES L. ROBERTS, Jr., JJ.


PRATHER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

The issue in this appeal is whether a non-resident custodial parent who initiates a Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) action in a foreign jurisdiction submits to personal jurisdiction in the Mississippi Chancery Court as the responding state for a contest of a child custody order of the foreign jurisdiction. This Court holds that custody orders and visitation...

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