State v. Chase

Carley, Chief Judge.

The relevant facts in this Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) case are as follows: When appellant-husband and appellee-wife were divorced in Michigan in 1981, he was granted custody of their three minor children, but she was not ordered to pay any child support. In 1987, however, appellant initiated a URESA action in Michigan, alleging that appellee had a duty to support the children and that she was subject to the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of Bartow County. Before the URESA action was formally transferred to Georgia for disposition, appellant…