Maben V. Superior Court Of Los Angeles County

McCOY, J. pro tem.*fn* This proceeding arises out of a divorce action in the respondent court in which petitioner is the defendant. The plaintiff in that action, the real party in interest here, obtained an interlocutory judgment of divorce from petitioner in May 1958. That judgment, which became final in May 1959, was modified in March 1962 and again in December 1965, insofar as it provided for the payment of alimony. In January 1967 plaintiff obtained an order requiring petitioner to show cause why the provisions of the December 1965 order should not be modified so as to provide for the further payment of alimony. The petitioner here seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent court from taking any further proceedings based on the order to show cause, claiming that the trial court has no jurisdiction to do so by reason of section  139.7 of the Civil Code. The question posed by petitioner as to the effect of that section appears to be one of first impression.