Murphy v. Murphy

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a child support case.

The parties were divorced on December 2, 1982, by an Ohio divorce decree, which granted the custody of Jennifer, the minor child of the parties, to the mother and ordered the father to pay the mother $100 per month as child support. The mother became a resident citizen of Alabama and on May 18, 1983, filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Dale County, seeking satisfaction of the Ohio decree as to custody, an increase in child support and her attorney’s fees. The father answered the complaint on June 8, 1983, and filed a…