State ex rel. Nebraska v. Brooks

The state petitions for reconsideration of our decision reported in 34 Or App 975, 580 P2d 206 (1978), affirming the trial court’s order directing the father to pay child support in the amount of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month. The grounds for our decision were that the amount of child support was approximately equal to that payable under a 1965 Nebraska divorce decree, establishing the duty of support, and that the Oregon courts were powerless to alter that amount in an action brought under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, ORS 110.005 et seq (UR-ESA). The state argues in…