State Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services ex rel. Shade v. Kimmerly

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellant seeks review of a circuit court order denying a claim for current child support. The claim was made by a petition initiating in Ohio, and filed in Florida pursuant to Chapter 88, Florida Statutes, the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA). In denying the claim for current support the trial court declined to consider the merits of the claim, indicating that it was bound by a prior order of another court. We conclude that hte court erred in refusing to consider the merits of the claim on that ground, and we therefore reverse the order appealed.