State v. Duncan

In this suit, the state as plaintiff, acting through the commissioner of the department of administrative services, obtained a judgment against the defendant upon a default for failure to appear in the sum of $3203.18 for the support of her minor child, with an order of payments of five dollars per week commencing on June 30, 1978. When no payments were received, the plaintiff obtained a wage execution. After the execution had been served, the defendant appeared in the action and filed a motion to stay proceedings upon the ground that her debt to the state had been discharged in bankruptcy on…