State ex rel. Marmo v. Superior Court

Citations

• 115 Wash. 154
• 196 P. 577
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 681

Syllabus

<p>Infants (4)—Protection—Proceedings Affecting Custody—Jurisdiction of Juvenile Courts. Jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a minor child ceases when, by subsequent decree of the superior court in divorce proceedings, the child is awarded to one of the parents.</p> <p>Divorce (104)—Infants (4)—Custody and Control—Modification of Decree—Jurisdiction. Where a decree in divorce proceedings was modified so as to give the custody of the children to the father instead of the mother as originally awarded, the court was without power to further adjudge that its decree should not be construed as abridging the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to make orders from time to time touching the welfare of the female child which had been theretofore made a ward of the juvenile court.</p>