Pearson v. Pearson

Titone, J. P.

(dissenting). This is a proceeding brought pursuant to Family Court Act § 466 to enforce the support provisions incorporated, but not merged, in a New Hampshire divorce decree. The petitioner wife, Joan Pearson, appeals from two orders of the Family Court, Rockland County, which, in essence, granted her former husband’s application to vacate previously entered orders of support. The core question is whether the full faith and credit clause (US Const, art IV, § 1) bars New York from directing that a New York spouse continue to receive such support by virtue of a New Hampshire…