Lybeck v. Lybeck

LEHAN, Judge.

This case involves the broad question of whether a Florida court should give full faith and credit to an obligation of a Florida resident, an ex-husband, for alimony pursuant to an unappealed judgment of a court of another state which had obtained jurisdiction over the Florida resident when he had been a resident of that other state.

The parties were divorced pursuant to a Minnesota judgment in 1973. After the divorce, the husband moved to Florida. The wife stayed in Minnesota. When the husband became delinquent in his alimony and child support obligations under the Minnesota…