Ruby L. Wood v. Cleveland E. Wood

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that the 1957 amendment to Article 4631, which treats certain military personnel as bona fide residents for divorce purposes, does not violate the Texas Constitution's prohibition on special divorce laws nor the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also dismissed the second certified question concerning a $5 cost provision because the issue was not properly raised in the lower courts.