Garlitz v. Rozar

HAIRE, Chief Judge,

Division 1.

In this special action proceeding, petitioner Jerry Edward Garlitz contends that the respondent judge lacks jurisdiction to consider a petition for modification of the child support provisions of a previously domesticized foreign divorce decree.

The respondent real party in interest, Betty White Garlitz, filed the modification petition in the Maricopa County Superior Court, after having previously domesticized a California decree in accordance with the provisions of the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, A.R.S. § 12-1701 et seq. For the purposes of this…