People Ex Rel. LeGout v. Decker

This case involves the applicability of the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 40, pars. 1201 through 1242). In brief, RURESA provides a mechanism by which an individual to whom a duty of support is owed (the obligee) can compel the person owing the duty (the obligor) to abide by it when absent from the jurisdiction in which the obligee resides without the obligee’s having to leave that jurisdiction to obtain enforcement. Either RURESA or a predecessor uniform act, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), has been…