Vigon v Vigon

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1929
Date1929
[COURT OF APPEAL] VIGON v. VIGON AND KUTTNER. 1929 April 19. LORD HANWORTH M.R., LAWRENCE and SANKEY L.JJ.

Divorce - Practice - Custody of Child - Previous Order of Court of Summary Jurisdiction - Variation of Order - Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 and 1925 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 27 and 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 45).

APPEAL from a decision of Bateson J.F1

On September 15, 1927, the wife obtained from a Court of summary jurisdiction an order under the Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 and 1925, for the custody of the child of the marriage, a boy born on April 1, 1926. On December 12, 1928, the husband was granted a decree nisi for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. The petition contained a prayer for the custody of the child, but on...

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3 cases
  • Re H. (A Minor) (Wardship: Jurisdiction)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 October 1977
    ...over children who are subject to orders made in magistrates1 courts, unless the parties prefer to retain the magistrates' order; Vigon v. Vigon & Kuttner, (1929) Probate, 157. 12 The third group of case is those arising under the Childrens Acts; i.e., the Children Act, 1948 and the Chil......
  • Re P. (Infants)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
  • Re D. (Minors) (Wardship: Jurisdiction)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
    ...P. (A. J.) (An Infant), In re [1968] 1 W.L.R. 1976. S. (An Infant), In re [1965] 1 W.L.R. 483; [1965] 1 All E.R. 865, C.A. Vigon v. Vigon and Kuttner [1929] P. 245, C.A. W. (An Infant), In re [1963] Ch. 556; [1963] 2 W.L.R. 1471; [1963] 2 All E.R. 706. The following cases supplied by counse......