Court Opinion

ID: 9665958
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:00:29.133489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:14:06.270850
License: Public Domain

CHARLES B. BLACKMAR, Senior Judge,
concurring.
I concur, with great reluctance. The court follows controlling authority in holding that the denial by this court of the husband’s *479petition for a writ of prohibition is simply an exercise of discretion which does not constitute an adjudication, but I am sure that this analysis is puzzling and confusing to those not trained in the law. The court at that time had all the information about the case that it now has, and should have stopped the case at that point. Instead it gave the parties and the trial court a green light, thus inducing the Colorado courts to forbear. The resulting delay of three years is hard on all parties, and especially the children.
I suppose that all I can say at this point is that a writ of prohibition should issue as of course when a patent jurisdictional defect is present, and that this is especially so in a dissolution case in which children are involved.