State ex rel. Rivera v. Robles

h SULLIVAN, Judge.

The State of Louisiana, on behalf of Eneth Rivera, appeals a judgment that dismissed as res judicata the second of two petitions filed under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement Support Act (URESA), which act the legislature repealed and reenacted as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), effective January 1,1996. For the following reasons, we reverse and remand.

Facts

On August 19, 1982, Eneth Rivera and Nelson R. Robles, Jr. were married in Bel Air, Maryland. They separated in October of either 1982 or 1983, depending upon which of these two dates in the record is…