Daskin v. Knowles

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware held that the Family Court could not conclusively determine the wife's six-month Delaware residency without an evidentiary hearing and that service on the husband in Greece was ineffective because it used methods to which Greece had objected under the Hague Service Convention and was not performed by an approved process server. The court rejected challenges to its interlocutory jurisdiction and declined to dismiss the appeal based on alleged contempt. It vacated and reversed the Family Court's rulings, including the divorce decree, and remanded for further proceedings.