Brown v. Fayette

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of St. Lawrence County (Follett, J.), entered June 23, 1981, which denied respondent’s application to reopen a Uniform Support of Dependents Law proceeding. In 1970, petitioner Margaret F. Brown and respondent Thomas W. Fayette were divorced by an Alabama decree, and the subjects of this support proceeding are their natural children, Brett and Finee Fayette. An earlier proceeding in Dickson County, Tennessee, the residence of petitioner and the children, resulted in 1973 in a support order directing respondent to pay $35 weekly. Respondent soon ceased…