Childress v. McManus

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that the death of a party to a divorce proceeding takes away the jurisdiction of the chancery court
• “ARCP Rule 58 plainly states a decree is effective only when entered as provided by Rule 79(a)”
• \ARCP Rule 58 plainly states a decree is effective only when entered as provided by Rule 79(a)\
• “Death of a party to a divorce proceeding takes away the jurisdiction of the chancery court.”
• it is not necessary to appeal from a void order because it never became effective

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).