Clinkscales v. Clinkscales, 18146
| Court | United States State Supreme Court of South Carolina |
| Citation | 134 S.E.2d 216,243 S.C. 377 |
| Decision Date | 30 December 1963 |
| Docket Number | No. 18146,18146 |
| Parties | Martin L. CLINKSCALES, Respondent, v. Ann H. CLINKSCALES, Appellant. |
Frank Sawyer, Spartanburg, for appellant.
Rex L. Carter, Leo H. Hill, Greenville, for respondent.
The appellant, Ann H. Clinkscales, was awarded a divorce from the respondent, Martin L. Clinkscales, and custody of their children, two young girls, by a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Anderson County dated June 12, 1961. Appellant moved from Anderson to Greenville, taking the children with her, and respondent brought this action against her for the custody of the children in the Court of Common Pleas of Greenville County. The complaint alleges that appellant has been guilty of serious misconduct since the divorce and is not a fit and proper person to have custody of minor children. A rule to show cause why temporary custody should not be awarded to respondent was issued.
The appellant moved to dismiss the action upon the ground that the court by which the divorce decree was issued has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of questions concerning the custody of the children. She also filed an 'answer and return' by which she denied the jurisdiction of the court and pleaded in abatement that the divorce action was pending for the determination of questions touching the custody of the children.
The circuit judge refused to dismiss the action and awarded temporary custody of the children to respondent. The sole question involved on this appeal is whether the court erred in assuming jurisdiction.
In concluding that the action was properly brought in Greenville County, the circuit judge, relying upon Danziger v. Shoob, 203 Ga. 623, 48 S.E.2d 92, gave controlling weight to Sec. 10-303, Code of 1962, which fixes the venue of actions, generally, in the county of defendant's residence.
On analogous facts to those involved here, it was held in Danziger v. Shoob, supra, that the divorce court had no jurisdiction of a proceeding for the custody of children residing with the divorced wife in another county. However, the decision is not persuasive here because it rested on the absence of a Georgia statute vesting jurisdiction of future proceedings involving custody of children in the divorce court. Our statute, Sec. 20-115, expressly provides that the divorce court may 'from time to time after final judgment' make such orders touching the care, custody and maintenance of the children of the marriage as may be fit, equitable and just.
We quote from Re Blake, 184 N.C. 278, 114 S.E. 294, in which a statute of like tenor was construed.
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